A close friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is speaking out against new allegations that GOP mega-donor improperly paid for the private school tuition of Thomas' great-nephew.
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"The Thomases love their great-nephew. It is despicable that the press has dragged him into their effort to smear Justice Thomas," Paoletta stated in a tweet Thursday. Paoletta said that in 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great-nephew, and that in discussion with Crow and his wife Kathy, Harlan Crow recommended that they send him to Randolph-Macon Academy, which Harland had also attended.
"But let’s be clear about what is supposedly scandalous now: Justice Thomas and his wife devoted 12 years of their lives to taking in and caring for a beloved child – who was not their own – just as Justice Thomas’ grandparents had done for him," Paoletta said. Thomas was not required to disclose the tuition payments made directly to Randolph-Macon and the Georgia school on behalf of his great-nephew because, according to Paoletta, the definition of a"dependent child" under the Ethics in Government Act does not include a"great-nephew." It is limited to a"son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter."
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