Crow Paid for Private Schooling for Thomas’s Grandnephew (1)

Billionaire Harlan Crow paid private-school tuition for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew, ProPublica reported, adding to a string of revelations about benefits received by Thomas from the Republican megadonor.

ProPublica said a bank statement filed in the school’s bankruptcy case showed a $6,200 payment from Crow to cover one month’s tuition for Mark Martin at Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in northern Georgia. Thomas was the boy’s legal guardian and has said he raised Martin like his own son.

The publication also quoted a former administrator at the school as saying Crow paid Martin’s tuition ...