The $267,230 RV Clarence Thomas 'scrimped and saved to afford' was financed by wealthy friend

Republicans, you might wanna look away, this is about still more corruption from you favorite justice.

There must be some accountability. We cannot have supreme court justices taking bribes.

Congress must act.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...financed-by-wealthy-friend-report/ar-AA1eSh15

 

Nothing illegal about that.

 

We don't really know do we

''Vehicle loans are generally exempt from those reporting requirements, as long as they are secured by the vehicle and the loan amount doesn’t exceed its purchase price. But private loans like the one between Mr. Welters and Justice Thomas can be deemed gifts or income to the borrower under the federal tax code if they don’t hew to certain criteria: Essentially, experts said, the loan must have well-documented, commercially reasonable terms along the lines of what a bank would offer, and the borrower must adhere to those terms and pay back the principal and interest in full.''


...Richard W. Painter, a White House ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, said that when it comes to questions of disclosure, the ethics treatment of gifts and income often parallels the tax treatment. But those intricacies aside, he said, “justices just should not be accepting private loans from wealthy individuals outside their family.” If they do, he added, “you have to ask, why is a justice going to this private individual and not to a commercial lender, unless the justice is getting something he or she otherwise could not get.”


The Times’s unearthing of the loan arrangement is the latest in a series of revelations showing how wealthy benefactors have bestowed an array of benefits on Justice Thomas and his wife, Virginia Thomas

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html

NO PAYWALL

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Yep, it's perfectly normal to purchase a luxury RV and get it paid for by friends. That must be it. Everyone knows someone this has happened to.... SMDH

 

Not breaking the law is not even close to the standards expected of leadership in any field of endeavor. Uncle Clarence isn’t out of place when it fits an archtype as well as it does Thomas.

 

Well, Clarence surely has no concern even about the appearance of impropriety...he's above reproach and judgement, a purity.

 

He needs to be impeached and removed — throw Alito into the mix for good measure.

 

Friends didn't pay for it. they financed it for him. in other words they paid them back,

 

Wow! So a member of the state is corrupt??? Shocking! Absolutely shocking!

 

Hmm. I borrowed some money from my brother once, for over $25k, and paid below market rates for a signature loan. It was in line, at the time though not anymore, for a mortgage, but he had no lien, and no contract, it was done on a handshake. And it was paid back, at the agreed upon interest. If I were on the USSC, would you say that about me, too, or only if you knew or suspected I was not on 'your team' of USSC Justices?

 

Why don't you just go ahead and call him an Uncle Thomas because you know that's what you want to call him.

 

Riiiight. Nothing to see here, just a billionaire doing favors for a supreme court justice for no reason, lol.

 

I say flush the whole thing and start over.

 

Do we know that?

 

Were you in a position of power like supreme court justice or something similar? A spot where your brother may lean on your debt to get favors from you?

 

Not the relevant question which is can you prove he didn't?

 

Uncle Clarence, Uncle Tom wasn't a supreme court justice.

 

You made a claim, back it up.

 

Happens all the time with Democrats, but that's ok...lol

 

You claimed an illegality prove it/

 

You know exactly what you guys are calling the man. You might as well just go ahead and use the magic word

 

Right after you prove this is illegal you can go ahead and prove that that happened too

 

Silly question I know, but do you actually know what they phrase "Uncle Tom" refers to?

 

I didn't. I asked you a question. Do we know that he did or not.

 

I don't have access to his bank records do You. My auto assumption is that until some one proves other wise he repaid the loan.