Reactions to yet the latest report on how Republican megadonor Harlan Crow lavished previously undisclosed funds to aid Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' lifestyle are pouring in swiftly. On Thursday, ProPublica reported that the billionaire paid the tuition of Thomas' great-nephew, whom Thomas had legal custody of, while the teen attended first private school and then boarding school.
The investigative outlet reported that a July 2009 bank statement from an unrelated court filing revealed that Crow paid then-teenage Mark Martin's tuition while he attended Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in northern Georgia, in 2008, amounting to over $6,000 a month at the time. A former Hidden Lake administrator, Christopher Grimwood, also told ProPublica that Crow paid for Martin's tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia, which Martin had attended before and after Hidden Lake Academy. The school was Crow's own alma mater.
