Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims that, when he’s not hobnobbimg with billionaires at Bohemian Grove or getting free cruises on mega-yachts, or vacationing at luxury resorts, he loves hanging out with the common folk:
“I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There’s something normal to me about it. I come from regular stock, and I prefer that—I prefer being around that.”
Of couse that quote is from a “documentary” funded by Thomas sugar daddy, billionaire Harlan Crow. So how does Mr. Thomas hang with the Hoi Polloi? In a Land Yacht of his own, a lightly-used $267,230 luxury motor coach, a 40-foot long Prevost Le Mirage XL Marathon. But as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas makes a measly $230,000 a year, so he got the RV with a little help from his friends. In this case the friend was a mere multi-millionaire, health insurance executive Anthony Welters.
So Mr. Welters financed the purchase of the huge motor home for Mr. Thomas. What were the terms? Was it paid in full? Was it forgiven, i.e. a gift? We don’t don’t know. That’s between friends.
More:
“Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It,” Jo Becker and Julie Tate, New York Times
Related:
“List of Free Stuff Clarence Thomas Has Gotten Gets Even Longer,” Corbin Bolies, Daily Beast
“A Quick Guide to Justice Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Scandals,” Chas Danner, New York Magazine
“Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court,” Abbie VanSickle and Steve Eder, New York Times
“Alito and Thomas Write Opinion Declaring That Yachts Are People,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
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