A Republican activist who helped former president Donald Trump select judicial nominees arranged for thousands of dollars to be paid to the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for what has been described as consulting work undertaken in the early 2010s, according to a report published in The Washington Post.
Leonard Leo, a conservative operative who runs a network of nonprofits that support Republican causes and push for conservative judicial nominees who have been vetted for their loyalty to the conservative movement, reportedly asked Kellyanne Conway, a GOP pollster who later served in the Trump administration, to invoice a nonprofit he advised and direct the payment her company received to Ms Thomas.
