The Republican megadonor met Thomas after he became a Supreme Court justice.
, a nonprofit news organization that investigates abuses of power, published a report Thursday detailing how Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from real estate magnate and billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. Those gifts include island-hopping on a superyacht with attendants and private chefs, flights on a private jet, and weeklong stays every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks for more than two decades.
That resort, Camp Topridge at Upper St. Regis Lake, is a 105-acre property featuring an artificial waterfall, 25 fireplaces, three boathouses, a tennis court, and a lifesize replica of Hagrid’s hut from “Harry Potter.” The invitation-only resort is popular among billionaires, including corporate executives and GOP donors, and was previously the summer retreat for heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built Mar-a-Lago, now best known as former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida.
A painting that hangs at Topridge, obtained by ProPublica, shows Crow and Thomas, smoking a cigar, sitting next to a statue of a Native American man and three lawyers identified as “conservative political operatives.” One is Leonard Leo, a Cornell University and Cornell Law School alumnus who led the Federalist Society and has been accused of using “Post donated the luxury camp near Saranac Lake to New York state after her death in 1974, according to.
Thomas met Crow after he was appointed to the bench by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, according to interviews and documents obtained by the publication. In 2011, it was
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