Virginia Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, smiles during the “Law Symposium: Justice Thomas’s Thirty-Year Legacy on the Court,” Co-hosted by The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and The Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, October 21, 2021. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
A Republican megadonor paid two years of private school tuition for a child raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who did not disclose the payments, a lawyer who has represented Thomas and his wife acknowledged Thursday.
The revelation of tuition payments made by Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow is the latest example of Crow’s generosity to Thomas and his family that has raised questions about Thomas’ ethics and disclosure requirements more generally. The payments, along with the earlier examples of Crow’s financial ties to Thomas, were first reported by the nonprofit investigative journalism site ProPublica.
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