Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday.Healthcare magnate Anthony Welters told the Senate Finance Committee he forgave the RV loan after five years of receivin...

Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday.

Healthcare magnate Anthony Welters told the Senate Finance Committee he forgave the RV loan after five years of receiving payments on the interest but not the principal, the report states.

“Now we know that Justice Thomas had up to $267,230 in debt forgiven and never reported it on his ethics forms,” Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, (D-OR) said in a statement.

Wyden called on Thomas to specify exactly how much of the debt he paid and whether the loan was reported on tax returns.

  • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
    882·
    8 months ago

    When you regularly receive so many “”“loans”“” and lavish 6 figure vacations from “”“friends”“”, you can’t be expected to remember to officially report all of them, completely understandable

  • Rottcodd@kbin.social
    79·
    8 months ago

    Ah… the venerable old “make a ‘loan’ then forgive it” strategy for paying bribes.

    At this point Thomas might as well have a tattoo across his forehead that says “I am corrupt.”

    If he had even a speck of integrity, he’d resign.

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      I think the only reason these shitbags used to resign is they didn’t have enough power to say “fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?” But he does, apparently.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    664·
    8 months ago

    267K seems like such an impossibly high number that I can’t even comprehend ever having that much in dollars. For these asshole that’s just bribe money, pissed away on an RV he likely used once. And at that price it’s likely one of the nicest RV’s anyone’s ever seen.

    • abaci@discuss.tchncs.de
      38·
      8 months ago

      He used it quite a bit. He put on this Everyman schtick where he didn’t need fancy trips, he just needed to RV and camp in Walmart parking lots

      The articles on it are quite hilarious to read now that we know actually he was going on lavish free trips plenty and that RV was a tremendous bribe

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 months ago

      If it makes you feel any better, that was $267k in the late 1990s. Value in today’s money is closer to half a million.

      Yeah that doesn’t make me feel better either.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Really? That’s less than the median home price in the US ($412k). Especially with inflation from the past few decades, that’s not really that much money.

      • whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world
        253·
        8 months ago

        I hope you’re joking.

        Even if you made $300k a year (which is 5 times the national average), you probably wouldn’t have $267k left after a year of housing, utilities, living expenses, taxes, transportation, healthcare, etc. Cost of living in the US is terrible.

        • JollyGreen_sasquatch@sh.itjust.works
          142·
          8 months ago

          Taxes on $300k in a year would make it impossible. Would probably have to make $400k in a year to have a chance with expenses and living frugally or 2-3 years @ $300k/year.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        101·
        8 months ago

        Do you work in IT? Maybe you should look at the median income of your country to have a more realistic idea of what is a lot.

  • Fraylor@lemm.ee
    40·
    8 months ago

    This just in: Clarence Thomas is a joke of a human being, even moreso as a justice. Nothing will be done. Happy Thursday.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Justice is not a term I would associate with that man it’s so weird it’s allowed to be his title. We should take it away from him already because he is disgracing the highest court. How are there no laws against that? And since there are none people will need to take action in some other way. That’s asking for trouble. What the hell kind of system is this?

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
    281·
    8 months ago

    Wow turns out loan forgiveness is a great idea after all! For corrupt republican shitbags.

  • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
    211·
    8 months ago

    I’m sure the Republicans in the house will get right on this after they’re done elevating an election denier to second-in-line to the presidency.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    142·
    8 months ago

    Whomst among us has not gotten a quarter million dollar loan from a friend and never repaid it? What sort of friends would the guy be if he has Clarence pay such a small sum back? /s

  • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
    153·
    8 months ago

    I can’t believe Biden forgave Thomas’s loan. This is what happens when you elect a communist: it makes the supreme court look corrupt.

    Thank God for the level heads over at the supreme court who have informed us that even though it may look, feel, smell, and taste exactly like shit, that it’s actually your upper lip. Also, they’re rubber and we’re glue.

    /s