Coke pubes AND tax fraud? "Clarence Thomas Didn't Report Wife's Income For Several Years"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

January 22, 2011 07:00 AM
Common Cause: Clarence Thomas Didn't Report Wife's Income For Several Years

By Susie Madrak



http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/common-cause-clarence-thomas-didnt-re

I've looked into this before, and found there was a decision by the court several years ago in which they said they're weren't bound by the same ethics rules as other federal judges. (As I recall, the statement was along the lines of "We're Supreme Court justices, you should assume we wouldn't do anything unethical.") I don't know about you, but I'm immensely reassured:

WASHINGTON…Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed over the course of at least five years to report his wife's income from a conservative think-tank on his financial disclosures, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.

Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, was paid $686,589 by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, according to a Common Cause review of IRS records. Thomas failed to note the income in his financial disclosure forms for those years, choosing instead to check a box titled "none" where "spousal non-investment income" would normally be disclosed.

In his 2009 disclosure, Justice Thomas also reported spousal income as "none." Common Cause contends that Liberty Central paid Thomas an unknown salary during that year.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Further proof of the corporate media's uselessness

I guarantee you're more likely to hear about Snooki's preparations for bikini season on the evening news than this highly unethical and illegal action on the part of a SC justice.

[howaboutme]

4. Bingo!

Corporate controlled media in partnership with government, and intent on keeping Americans informed about worthless trash or politically divided, instead of as they once did which was focusing on righting wrongs.

The two biggest threats to the USA are:
1- a controlled consolidated media and
2- a lack of organized political opposition (originally private sector organized labor served this function) to the corporatization of the USA.

[rfranklin]

2. It is not tax fraud...

he did not reveal her income on his financial disclosure forms which are supposed to bring conflicts of interest to light. He obviously realized that there was an ethical problem with her working for right wing propagandists.

[neverforget]

3. Imagine if a liberal justice did this. The amount of outrage and calls for

impeachment would be too great to ignore. But, this is a right winger, so it's all good.

[Lint Head]

5. Criminals are running our government and our media and We the People

just sit around and complain.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Time for him to step down

if he has any guts

[tanyev]

7. Hey, maybe $686,589.00 is such a tiny fraction of their income that he completely forgot about it.

It could happen.




:sarcasm:

[Sal Minella]

12. All I can think of is Thomas's comment in an interview a few years

back that he really did not enjoy being a Supreme Court justice, and "You can't make any money at it." Verbatim.

I daresay money has found a way to reach him since that statement -- if that statement wasn't a solicitation for bribes, I can't see a way to write one more directly.

Can't imagine living in a style where you consider $137,000 a year not worth reporting.

[jwirr]

8. He should resign. He broke the law willfully.

[Octafish]

9. Jail the scofflaw, tax cheat creep.

Slappy, too.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Isn't that a crime?

And I believe a charge of falsifying U.S. documents should be on the table.

[Kurovski]

11. Oh, now, now. It was just a few bucks wifey made selling her homemade jam.

Now, just skooch! and go watch Jersey Shore. I think the little one is going to get smacked again soon...

Besides, we'll have a story about Democratic tax evasion soon enough, we'll run that for you 24/7 for three months. We think you'll enjoy that MUCH better, now won't you? I mean EVERYONE else will be talking about it, so you will too.


Won't you? I mean...you WANT to be like EVERYONE else, like a NORMAL person? RIGHT?