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