GOP mega-donor reportedly paid private school tuition for grandnephew of Clarence Thomas – live

Supreme court justice did not report Crow’s tuition payments on his annual financial disclosures, ProPublica reports

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Good morning, US politics readers. A grandnephew of Clarence Thomas, whom the supreme court justice described as a “son,” had his private school tuition paid for by billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow, according to a new investigation by ProPublica.

Financial documents reviewed by ProPublica showed that in July 2009, a payment was made by Crow’s company to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in northern Georgia where tuition ran over $6,00 monthly. The payment of $6,200 was labeled with the name of Thomas’s grandnephew, Mark Martin.

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