Clarence Thomas Will Reportedly Amend His Financial Disclosures Following Reports About GOP Mega-Donor

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Supreme Court JusticeClarence Thomasreportedly plans toamend his financial disclosure formsto include a previously unreported real estate deal he made with GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow.

CNN reports that Thomas will amend his 2014 forms to include the sale of three Georgia properties to Crow, which a source tells the outlet the justice previously didn’t report because he lost money on the sales.

The news of Thomas' intention to amend the forms comes days afterProPublicareported on the justice’s friendly relationship with Crow, which came with luxury trips in addition to real estate deals.

Among those vacations, ProPublica reported, were annual week-long retreats to Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, vacations at Crow’s ranch in East Texas, and a nine-day trip that Thomas and his wife took to Indonesia in 2019 — complete with island-hopping aboard super-yachts and private jets.

The trips were not included on Thomas' financial disclosures which — according to ethics experts the outlet interviewed — could violate a law requiring justices, judges and other public servants to disclose most gifts.

Thomas has not released a statement in the wake of the report, though Crow issued his ownlengthy statementin which he said he and his wife had been “very dear friends” with the Thomases since 1996.

The trips, he added, were personal in nature.

The reports about Justice Thomas come on the heels of various reports about his wife,Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, whothe U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riotsfound had communicated with allies of former PresidentDonald Trumpabout overturning the 2020 presidential election results.

In aninterview with the committeelast year, Ginni said she regretted “the tone and content,” of those messages, adding: “it was an emotional time, and I was texting with a friend who I had known a long time. So I really find my language imprudent and my choices of sending the context of these emails unfortunate.”

source: people.com