Justice Clarence Thomas met the recreational vehicle of his dreams in Phoenix, on a November Friday in 1999. ... Clarence Thomas’ $267,230 RV and the friend who financed it ...

Molly Bohannon has been a Forbes news reporter since 2023. A Senate Finance Committee investigation found that a loan Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received from a friend to buy a $267,230 ...

Mark Paoletta, a friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says Thomas was in compliance with court ethics laws when he didn't disclose trips he took with his friend and billionaire GOP ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Friend of Thomas Defends His Failure to Disclose a Donor’s Tuition Payments.

This article was updated on April 14, 2023, at 4:29pm. I have never met Harlan Crow, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire best friend, but I have peered through the fence ...

There is a complex, back story to Thomas’ RV — one that also leaves unanswered a host of questions about whether the justice received, and failed to disclose, a lavish gift from a wealthy friend.