A brand new report reveals that Leonard Leo paid Ginni Thomas tens of hundreds of {dollars}, however the cash was routed by Kellyanne Conway’s consulting firm with out mentioning Thomas.
The Washington Publish reported:
Leo, an adviser to the Judicial Schooling Undertaking and a key determine in a community of nonprofits that has labored to help the nominations of conservative judges, informed Conway that he wished her to “give” Ginni Thomas “one other $25K,” the paperwork present. He emphasised that the paperwork ought to have “No point out of Ginni, in fact.”
Conway’s agency, the Polling Firm, despatched the Judicial Schooling Undertaking a $25,000 invoice that day. Per Leo’s directions, it listed the aim as “Complement for Structure Polling and Opinion Consulting,” the paperwork present.
Leonard Leo’s title has been within the information currently as a result of he might have precipitated The Federalist Society to violate its tax-exempt standing in order that he might safe a $1/6 billion donation for partisan activism.
There isn’t any documented proof that Ginni Thomas ever did any work for the Judicial Schooling Undertaking or Kellyanne Conway’s polling firm. It seems that Leo was slipping cash to the Ginni and Clarence Thomas whereas he had enterprise earlier than the Supreme Court docket.
The Ginni Thomas information comes on the identical day {that a} separate investigation revealed {that a} GOP donor had been paying the non-public faculty tuition of Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew, who he has custody of and is elevating as his personal youngster.
The Supreme Court docket corruption scandal is rising extra uncontrolled by the hour, because the strain ought to develop on both Chief Justice John Roberts, who has his personal ethics scandal involving funds to his spouse, or Congress to behave.
Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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