WaPo: Thomas Reported Big Income From Defunct Firm

The Washington Post reports:

Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership. But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.

That year, the family real estate company was shut down and a separate firm was created. The similarly named firm assumed control of the shuttered company’s land leasing business. The previously unreported misstatement might be dismissed as a paperwork error. But it is among a series of errors and omissions that Thomas has made on required annual financial disclosure forms over the past several decades, a review of those records shows.

Read the full article. So what was the real source of those hundreds of thousands of dollars?

If I understand the rights defenses of Thomas is that he’s one of the most brilliant jurists of our time but also he’s not good at paperwork? — Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm https://t.co/Y58sRc8RaR

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) April 16, 2023