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(94,374 posts) Sat Apr 8, 2023, 11:35 AM Apr 2023

It's not just the lavish personal travel, Crow paid organizations which in turn paid Ginni [View all]

Greg Pinelo @gregpinelo 20h
It's not just the lavish personal travel that is so troubling. Crow was filling the Thomas family coffers through large donations to organizations which in turn paid Ginni. It's a classic pass-through that makes a mockery of ethics.

ClearingTheFog @clearing_fog · 20h
The timing is interesting. With $550K from Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas founded what may have been the very first dark money group with Leonard Leo, Liberty Central, in late 2009 -- weeks or months *before* the Citizens United ruling. Leo registered it in VA *one week* before CU.

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2011 Politico, Justice Thomas’s wife now lobbyist
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/justice-thomass-wife-now-lobbyist-048812

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It's not just the lavish personal travel, Crow paid organizations which in turn paid Ginni [View all] bigtree Apr 2023 OP

Fascist dark money owns the Supreme Court. Irish_Dem Apr 2023 #1

Betcha they used a similar scheme to fund the insurrection dalton99a Apr 2023 #2

Steve Bannon is a major player in bitcoin and markodochartaigh Apr 2023 #26

What a complete random coincidence. Every factor was in place with perfect timing. ffr Apr 2023 #3

Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2023 #4

Well Finally - A Republican George Soros..... global1 Apr 2023 #5

Agreed. pandr32 Apr 2023 #11

Damn you Soros Traildogbob Apr 2023 #13

Yes--he gets too much credit and not enough spoils. pandr32 Apr 2023 #17

Mock him and shame him. COL Mustard Apr 2023 #18

I mean, they've had like 50 of those...minus one Koch spawn. nt Carlitos Brigante Apr 2023 #22

The differences, of course, markodochartaigh Apr 2023 #24

The dirty little truth about the Harlan Crows is that they might not directly influence a allegorical oracle Apr 2023 #6

I've seriously wondered if Ginni holds most of the power tanyev Apr 2023 #7

Paging Merrick Garland - might want to look into this... Marius25 Apr 2023 #8

Who receives money from Harlan Crow? LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2023 #9

This crap is what caused the phrase "Perfectly legal." dchill Apr 2023 #10

Thomas hid that Harlan Crow was a donor to his wife LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2023 #12

Oh yes, circumvention. republianmushroom Apr 2023 #14

Clarence has the same kind of impeachment protection EndlessWire Apr 2023 #15

It's simply buying a vote of a SCOTUS justice. No more no less in my opinion. usaf-vet Apr 2023 #16

Clarence says he talked with "someone" decades ago who said it was okay. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2023 #19

Ginni Thomas' LC group only lasted two years. She ducked responsibility, lied, and turned her ancianita Apr 2023 #20

"Such tax exempt groups were supposed to markodochartaigh Apr 2023 #21

The DOJ could go after Crow, but won't. Sneederbunk Apr 2023 #23

Actually The 501-c4 Statute Reads DallasNE Apr 2023 #25

wow, interesting LymphocyteLover Apr 2023 #29

This message was self-deleted by its author DallasNE Apr 2023 #27

that sounds seriously criminally corrupt. Damn if only the House was in Dem hands LymphocyteLover Apr 2023 #28

And the Thomas family money is fungible. halfulglas Apr 2023 #30