Crow and his firm haven't had a case before the Supreme Court during Thomas’ time there — and noted that he and the justice and their wives kept the court and politics out of their friendship. Jet-setting with Thomas puts spotlight on Harlan Crow:
Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington, April 23, 2021.
The precise nature of the friendship between the justice and Crow is under new scrutiny since ProPublica revealed last week that Thomas did not disclose lavish gifts from Crow, including travel on the billionaire’s private jet, stays at his Adirondacks resort and island hopping in Indonesia on his superyacht.
“We have never asked about a pending or lower-court case, and Justice Thomas has never discussed one, and we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue,” Crow said in the statement. The Dallas billionaire’s background could not have been more different from a justice born into poverty in coastal Georgia. Thomas was abandoned by his father at age 7 and sent off to his grandparents in Savannah — the first time, he has said, that he lived in a home with a toilet.
In 2006, his company bought the site of Old Parkland, a former public hospital in Dallas, and turned it into the upscale office complex where Thomas spoke last year.“I wouldn’t care if John Q. Public had never heard of me,” he told the Times in 1996. “In fact, I’d prefer that John Q. Public hadn’t heard of me. It’s not a Howard Hughes privacy thing. It’s a what’s-the-point thing.”
His library includes paintings not only by Renoir but by Monet, Winston Churchill, George W. Bush — and Adolf Hitler, who did most of his painting before World War I, after he was rejected from art school. Once in power, Hitler is thought to have destroyed some of his more embarrassingly bad paintings, but several hundred are known to exist. It is unclear how much of Hitler’s work is in Crow’s collection.
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