(SAVANNAH, Ga.) — According to CNN, a report claims that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal with Harlan Crow, the Texan billionaire known for donating to Republican political campaigns. The report comes from the same source as a story that broke last week, saying that the Justice failed to disclose a decades-long series of luxury trips with Harlan Crow.
The report claims that a holding company owned by Crow purchased a series of properties in Savannah, Georgia, some of which were the Justice’s childhood home and then-home of his elderly mother. The transaction was worth over $130,000 dollars, according to Chatham County court filings.
Ownership had been split between Thomas, his mother, and his late brother.
The purchase would represent the first known transfer of money between Harlan Crow and Justice Clarence Thomas. The purchase itself wouldn’t be the issue, but Thomas’ failure to disclose it would be.
Justice Thomas has already responded to the claims from before, saying that he had been advised he did not need to disclose the trips. He described the Crow family as close personal friends, and that the multimillion dollar annual trips were nothing more than vacations with old friends.
A number of prominent Democratic lawmakers have pushed for an investigation into the trips.
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