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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court JusticeClarence Thomas, accepted thousands of dollars in secret payments from a right-wing judicial activist — who specifically emphasized that her name be kept off the documents reporting the payments — according to a new report.
According to the outlet, Conway’s firm, the Polling Company,paid Ginni’s firm, the Judicial Education Project, $80,000 between June 2011 and June 2012 — with another $20,000 expected before the end of 2012.
Leo — the former vice president of The Federalist Society who has led campaigns to support the nominations of conservative justices including Thomas,Amy Coney BarrettandBrett Kavanaugh— told thePostin a statement that the work Ginni did for him “involved gauging public attitudes and sentiment.”
Conway and the Thomases did not respond to thePost’s requests for comment.
Among those vacations, ProPublica reported, were annual week-long retreats to Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, vacations at Crow’s ranch in East Texas, and a nine-day trip that Thomas and his wife took to Indonesia in 2019 — complete with island-hopping aboard super-yachts and private jets.
Three days after the election, for instance, Ginni wrote to Meadows: “Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.”
Of her text messages with Meadows, Ginni later told the committee she came to regret “the tone and content,” saying, “it was an emotional time, and I was texting with a friend who I had known a long time. So I really find my language imprudent and my choices of sending the context of these emails unfortunate.”
The Washington Postalso reported how, in the wake of the election, Ginni “sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators” — more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature. In her message, she told lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and “ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen.”
source: people.com
