The Financial Relationship Between Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow

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In 2019 Clarence Thomas flew to Indonesia on Harlan Crow's private jet and then spent nine days island hopping on Crow's Super Yacht. We were told that if he was to charter that plane and that yacht himself, the trip could have easily cost $500,000. The first known direct financial transaction between these two men is a undisclosed real estate deal. He bought Clarence Thomas' mother's house where she was living from Clarence Thomas. CNN has reported that she's not paying rent.

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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