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Brain -> What Weinergate interrupted: Clarence Thomas’ (ongoing) conflict of interest scandal (links archive) (6/12/2011 2:08:30 AM)
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Weinergate Schmeinergate! It’s time for politicians in Washington to do their jobs and expose this Thomas to face his Clarencegate.
What Weinergate interrupted: Clarence Thomas’ (ongoing) conflict of interest scandal (links archive) : The Reid Report
The real conflict, if there was one, was with his wife Ginni, who earned “Salary and benefits” from Liberty Central and Liberty Consulting — prominent Tea Party Groups. The filing also revealed that the two share several financial investments, including 1/3 interest in rental property in Liberty City, Georgia, and a 401k plan. Thomas went on to note that, “two of the Georgia rental properties have been torn down. The only remaining property is an old house in Liberty County.”
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TRR has done several stories on what Twitterites are calling ClarenceGate, and what Weiner had called Conflicted Clarence Thomas (he even put up a website.) In fact, on the same day a group of rather nefarious denizens of the hacker and right wing worlds unleashed the pictures that spawned Weinergate, Weiner was Tweeting, and taunting, about the Thomas affair.
This post is meant to catalog everything we know about the Thomas conflict of interest case that Weiner was pushing for an investigation of. What is already in the public record is shocking, to say the least, in that it involves potentially 20 years of violations of disclosure rules by Thomas, whose wife was bringing nearly $800,000 of income into their family home, unbeknownst the public, while conducting very public advocacy on issues that are sure to come before the court, namely, healthcare reform.
http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/06/the-weinergate-clarence-thomas-convergence/
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