GOP Crime-ish Blotter
Remember when I said that when you find an unethical person and start pulling on the thread you keep finding more and more? I mean audit this guys's taxes, would you, IRS? Little doubt he'd deserve being arrested for tax evasion.
Another Thomas scandal. Hidden, unreported payments to Thomas from hyper-political right wingers. How much do you want to bet no taxes were ever paid on this income? And yes, of course Thomas did not recuse himself when the bribe-payer appeared in front of him.
Hey, 'conservatives!' We found the swamp! It's on your front lawn!
Bonus: Kellyanne Conway did the crimey thing!
Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the nonprofit, the Judicial Education Project, filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.
Leo, a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”