The Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas have been under fire for weeks over reports of largesse to Thomas by GOP billionaire donor Harlan Crow.
ProPublica also exposed that a Crow company bought properties in Savannah, Georgia, owned by Thomas' family, including a home where the justice's mother still lives rent-free.
Martin, who is now in his 30s, is the son of Thomas' nephew, who at one point when Martin was a boy was in prison on drug charges, ProPublica noted.Thomas took legal custody of Martin and became his legal guardian around January 1998, the report said. Martin lived with Thomas and his wife from the age of 6 to 19, Martin told ProPublica.
Martin spent the rest of his high school years at a military boarding school in Virginia, which Crow himself had attended, which charged between $25,000 and $30,000 annually, the report said. A friend of Thomas, the attorney Mark Paoletta, in a Twitter post on Thursday morning said that Crow paid only for one year, Martin's first, at Randolph-Macon, and then for his year at Hidden Lake Academy.
The statement added that Crow and his wife, Kathy, "have supported many young Americans through scholarship and other programs at a variety of schools, including his alma mater." "It is despicable that the press has dragged him into their effort to smear Justice Thomas," Paoletta wrote.
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