Clarence Took a Bribe
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Is the latest scandal around Clarence Thomas the one that will make a difference? When is this tax cheat going to finally get kicked out?
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| 0:45.5 | So now it's coming out. This is in the New York Times that Justice Clarence Thomas apparently |
| 1:03.0 | took a pretty substantial bribe. And what's interesting is this was the year that he sold his |
| 1:08.8 | autobiography for one and a half million dollars. So Thomas sells his autobiography for a million |
| 1:17.2 | and a half dollars and this wealthy healthcare industry executive who had loaned him a quarter |
| 1:25.6 | million dollars to buy this 40-foot luxury motor coach. These are, it's a pre-vosed marathon |
| 1:34.2 | LE Mirage XL. It's a brand favored by touring rock bands and the super wealthy. |
| 1:41.4 | And this industry guy, this healthcare industry guy, Anthony Welters, |
| 1:49.9 | bought the boss or gave Clarence the money and Clarence signed a note saying that he would pay |
| 1:56.1 | it back. He would pay interest for five years and then he would play the principal. When five |
| 2:00.8 | years came up, he had a million and a half bucks from selling his autobiography. But instead of |
| 2:05.5 | paying off the debt, he just ignored it. Clarence Thomas, according to these reports, |
| 2:11.1 | a $267,000, $267,000, $230 loan. This, you know, just the first paragraph from the New York Times |
| 2:21.9 | Joe Becker today. The Justice failed to repay much perhaps all of the $267,000, $230 loan |
| 2:28.8 | is benefactor wipe the slate clean with ethical and potential tax consequences. Now, |
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