"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the Supreme Court, from $1200 worth of tires to valuable historical items and a $5000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.
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Thomas, nominated to the Supreme Court at age 43 by President George H. W. Bush, has won many admirers who see inspiration in his rise from a childhood of poverty in the segregated South. Some of the gifts he has accepted have come from casual acquaintances or, in one case, a stranger. More often, they came from new, conservative friends who voice admiration for him.
Foremost among those conservative friends is Harlan Crow. The son of well-known Dallas real estate executive Trammell Crow, he runs a family holding company that owns 10 percent of Trammell Crow Co., one of the natiobn's biggest commercial real estate companies.
A big Republican donor, Crow last summer gave $25,000 TO HELP LAUNCH THE SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH CAMPAIGN deriding the Vietnam War record of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry."
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05002/435396.stmThis article also states that Crow gave Thomas the Bible that once belonged to Frederick Douglass and donated $175,000 for a new Clarence Thomas wing at the justice's childhood library in Pin Point, GA.
Justices Breyer and Souter tuned down all gifts!
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