WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and relatives sold three Georgia properties that include Thomas’s boyhood home to GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow in 2014, according to a report, marking the first known instance where money flowed to the Supreme Court justice from the same Texas real estate magnate who has provided him with lavish trips around the world.
ProPublica said Thursday that Thomas didn’t list the real estate sales on his financial disclosure form that year, just as he didn’t report his extensive travel financed by Crow that occurred over two decades.
Judicial experts interviewed by the investigative journalism organization said that omission appears to violate a federal law passed after the Watergate scandal that requires justices and other officials to provide details about most real estate transactions over $1,000.
