
Samuel Alito and The Billionaire
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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Samuel Alito's Private Jet to Alaska
Mark Stern: Samuel Alito in 2008 took a private jet to Alaska to a remote wilderness lodge where he went on fishing trips for King Salmon with Paul Singer, the hedge fund billionaire. He did not disclose this trip even though a one way private flight to this remote lodge costs about $100,000 per ProPublica and Alito did not recuse himself from a case involving Paul Singer's hedge fund. Mark Stern: Here we have like two familiar tales. And of course, this, you know, lavish day at a lodge in rural Alaska. And then we have Alito not recusing or bothering to note that he had maybe some kind of potential obligation to recuse when Paul Singer
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