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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Justice Alito tries to get ahead of damning report about billionaire gifts with defensive Wall Street Journal op-ed

REUTERS

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito failed to disclose private jet travel and a luxury fishing trip with a hedge fund billionaire who would later repeatedly ask the nation’s highest court to intervene on his behalf.

But the revelations, the latest from ProPublica’s ongoing investigations into ethics questions and gifts from influential figures to Supreme Court justices, first came from Justice Alito’s pre-emptive defence in The Wall Street Journal, which ran an opinion column bluntly titled “ProPublica Misleads Its Readers”.

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