The U.S. has evolved the "policy making billionaire" (Congress and White House) into the "court influencing billionaire" (Supreme Court).
ProPublica reported how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas benefited from the largess of billionaire Harlan Crow:
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures.
The big money funnel can be seen elsewhere in this story:
Crow had given half a million dollars to a Tea Party group founded by Ginni Thomas, which also paid her a $120,000 salary.
The people now see the addition of a Supreme Court Justice to the "Just Us" preferred people clan, Larry Summers' "insiders".
These are the benefits of insidership, funded by the recipients of government beneficence. Preferred taxation, a light to no regulatory touch, direct access to Uncle Sam's wallet are but a few of these billionaire oriented benefits. Many of those billionaires founded storied private equity underwriters (PEU).
Politicians Red and Blue have long loved PEU and increasingly, more are one. Now that Clarence got his PEU wings, the "Just Us" system appears to be a part of the grift.
Update 4-8-23: Clarence Thomas opined about the benefits of insidership. President Biden knows it courtesy of Nantucket hospitality from Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein.
The Supreme Court influencing billionaire has a "garden of evil." It's full of memorabilia from inhumane leaders.
Update 4-14-23: Thomas did not disclose the sale of property and lots to billionaire Harlan Crow. One citizen wrote Thomas "is showing us how to be free from morality and transparency."
Update 4-17-23: Billionaire Harlan Crow is not charging Clarence Thomas' mother rent.
