Undisclosed-Gifts

ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer

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ProPublica exposed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito failed to disclose an expensive luxury fishing trip to Alaska in July 2008, paid for by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer and other Republican donors. Alito flew to Alaska on Singer’s private jet and stayed at the King Salmon …

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ProPublica Reveals Alito's Undisclosed Alaska Trip with Billionaire Singer

| Importance: 9/10

ProPublica exposes Samuel Alito’s 2008 luxury Alaska fishing trip with hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer who later had business before the court, revealing potential judicial ethics violations and conflicts of interest. Alito preemptively disputes in WSJ op-ed, PBS News Hour provides …

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ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts

| Importance: 10/10

ProPublica publishes investigation revealing Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips and gifts from Harlan Crow for over 20 years without disclosure, triggering Supreme Court ethics crisis

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ProPublica Exposes Clarence Thomas's Undisclosed Luxury Gifts from Billionaire Harlan Crow

| Importance: 8/10

ProPublica revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted luxury vacations worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow over more than 20 years without disclosing them, as required by federal ethics law. The gifts included private …

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Clarence Thomas Takes 8-Day Indonesia Yacht Trip with Harlan Crow

| Importance: 8/10

Thomas accepts luxury trip to Bali including eight-day yacht excursion and private jet travel, later acknowledges he “inadvertently omitted” reporting after ProPublica investigation

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Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew

| Importance: 8/10

Crow starts paying roughly $6,200 monthly tuition for Mark Martin, whom Thomas was raising as a son, at elite boarding schools totaling approximately $100,000 in undisclosed gifts

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Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer

| Importance: 8/10

Justice Samuel Alito accepts private jet flight worth over $100,000 and luxury lodge stay from hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer who later has business before the court, violating disclosure requirements

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Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets

| Importance: 8/10

Justice Clarence Thomas begins a two-decade pattern of accepting luxury yacht vacations and private jet trips from billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow without disclosure, violating Supreme Court ethics standards. Senate investigations revealed nearly $4.2 million in undisclosed gifts, including …

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