These costly trips and travel perks often went unreported on the justice’s financial disclosure forms, ProPublica said in its investigation. ProPublica interviewed more than 100 people, including staff that would have worked some of the trips that Thomas took. Jeremy Fogel, a former judge who for years reviewed lower court judges’ financial disclosures, told ProPublica the amount of undisclosed gifts Thomas received is unlike anything he’s ever seen. None of the Thomas benefactors highlighted in the new report appear to have had direct business in front of the Supreme Court, ProPublica said. The report is the latest in a series of investigations into the failure of justices, and Thomas in particular, to report on annual financial disclosure forms the gifts and hospitality they have received.

Source: CNN August 11, 2023 01:36 UTC