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Five years ago, Justice Thomas was just arriving off the private jet paid for by Harlan Crow in California for the two-week all male Bohemian Grove party. And that trip came right on the heels of his trip yachting around Indonesia, also paid for by Crow.
If past summer recesses are any indication, Justice Clarence Thomas is in the middle of a summer full of travel on private jets paid for by his millionaire and billionaire friends. To make matters worse – he never disclosed any of this until this year. That’s much too late, and it’s illegal.
Here’s a timeline of Justice Thomas’s wild summer of 2019:
*
June
27,
2019:
Supreme
Court
releases
final
decisions
of
2019.
*
June
29,
2019:
Justice
Thomas
and
his
wife
Ginni
fly
on
a
private
jet
paid
for
by
Harlan
Crow
to
Indonesia.
*
July
1,
2019:
The
Thomases
go
on
an
eight-day
excursion
around
Indonesia
on
Crow’s
yacht
along
with
Crow
and
Crow’s
wife.
*
July
9,
2019:
Crow
reports
private
jet
travel
for
Thomas
from
Indonesia
back
to
DC.
The
private
jet
and
yachting
portions
of
this
trip
alone
would
have
cost
Thomas
roughly
$500,000
–
nearly
double
his
yearly
Supreme
Court
salary!
*
July
12,
2019:
Thomas
reports
hotel
stay
paid
for
by
Crow
in
Bali
(this
timeline
doesn’t
line
up
and
merits
investigation).
*
July
18,
2019:
Thomas
flies
on
a
private
jet
to
Santa
Rosa,
California
paid
for
by
Crow.
*
July
18,
2019:
From
July
18-21,
Thomas
attends
Bohemian
Grove,
an
exclusive
all-male
summit
paid
for
by
Crow.
This
is
a
“two-week
party
held
in
the
Sonoma
County
redwoods
every
July”
where
“wine,
sometimes
at
$500
a
bottle,
flows
freely,
and
late
at
night,
members
consume
clam
chowder
and
chili
by
the
gallon.”
*
July
21,
2019:
Thomas
flies
on
a
private
jet
back
to
Washington,
DC
paid
for
by
Crow.
August
31,
2019:
Over
Labor
Day
weekend,
Thomas
flies
on
a
private
jet
to
Nebraska
paid
for
by
David
Sokol.
*
August
31,
2019:
The
Thomases
attend
the
home
opener
football
game
at
University
of
Nebraska
paid
for
by
Sokol,
along
with
Mark
Paoletta.
Sokol
“arranged
for
the
group
to
attend
the
football
and
volleyball
games
with
all-access
passes.
Thomas
met
with
the
football
team
the
day
before
the
game.
The
group
walked
out
of
the
tunnel
before
kickoff.”
*
September
1,
2019:
The
Thomases
flew
with
Sokol
on
a
private
jet
to
Sokol’s
Paintbrush
Ranch
outside
Jackson
Hole,
Wyoming,
where
they
“fished,
rafted
on
the
Snake
River
and
sat
by
a
campfire
overlooking
the
Teton
Range
with
the
other
couples.
At
one
point,
the
Paolettas
serenaded
the
justice
with
a
song
they
wrote
about
him.”
John, it took five years for Thomas to finally amend his financial disclosure reports to include certain “food and lodging” portions of his trips to Bali and Bohemian Grove – and only after they were exposed by ProPublica , last year.
Thomas still has yet to disclose the private jet travel or yachting excursions he took on those trips or any part of his trips to Nebraska and Wyoming. And now, thanks to a letter sent by two senators who are demanding an investigation into Thomas, we know that he also traveled to Russia in 2003—also paid for by Crow.
We have a lot of questions about that, but one thing that is clear is that we can’t trust Clarence Thomas’s financial disclosures, and that he must be investigated.
Last year, CREW filed a civil and criminal complaint against Justice Thomas when his failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from and property sales to Crow came to light. Today, that investigation is all the more urgent.
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