have actually had an abortion. thanks so much for coming on. thanks, chris. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight gens right now. good evening, alex. it s such an essential conversation you re having, chris. there s been a flood this evening with major developments related to the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation, and there s brand new reporting regarding financial payments made not to clarence but ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice already under fire. and we re going to get to all of that today. but first there is this. do you remember during the peak of the pandemic when people would bank pots and pans from their windows and cheer for essential workers every night at 7:00 p.m.? this is kind of like that but only for maga die hard. since august almost nightly trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at 9:00 p.m. the january 6th defendants inside the jail, they flicker their lights on and off, and that s
another long time friend of thomas says harlan crow paid two years worth of admission to those schools which would amount to about $100,000 of undisclosed tuition gifts. while nbc has not independently verified this reporting crow responded to propublica with a statement about how he supported tuition for many kids, and he did not deny the reporting. now, crow wasn t the only person who offered thomas tuition money. remember there was that 2002 financial disclosure form where clarence thomas reported a $5,000 gift for mark martin s education. that gift was from the owners of a florida based pest control company. as propublica reports thomas was very careful in accepting and disclosing that contribution. according to two journalists who wrote a biography of thomas, at first thomas was worried about the propriety of the donation. he agreed to accept it if it was
thomas accepted as gifts from texas billionaire and republican megadonor harlan crow, gifts justice thomas routinely failed to report. if you add up all the dollar amounts from propublica s reporting the gifts amount to more than $1 million, and none of it showed up on the disclosure forms over the years. today propublica is out with new reporting about more money, this time tuition money crow paid to schools on behalf of justice thomas relatives or relative. in the late 1990s justice thomas took custody of his grandnephew a man named mark martin, at that time a child. in the early 2000s he decided to send him to private high schools and harlan crow stepped in to foot the bill. crow paid tuition at two different schools though the duration and total sum of those payments remains unclear. in a statement to propublica
in 2002 it was a $500 honorary membership to a club, $1,200 tires and a $5,000 education gift for mark martin. we re going to come back to that last one in just a second. in 2013 it was a $500 stained glass medallion from his alma mater at yale law school, in 2016 it was a bust of frederick douglas valued at $1600. those were some of the gifts he listed in public disclosure filings over the years while keeping with disclosure laws. while some of those reportedimes could raise items on their own, they re not even the most interesting part of thomas disclosure form. for that you have to look at what he s missing from those forms. in the last month propublica has reported on a litany of items for trips and payments on real estate that justice clarence