For years, Clarence Thomas has been showered with gifts. Flights on a billionaire’s private jet, lavish vacations cruising on his superyacht, summer stays at his Adirondacks compound, tuition for a child Thomas was raising, a quarter-million-dollar motorhome a wealthy friend paid for.
Those gifts were income, and income belongs on a tax return. Thomas treated them as nothing, and no public record shows he ever reported a dollar of it. Under Virginia law, leaving income that size off a return, if it was done to cheat the state, is a felony. The evidence is already public, and he could be charged on Monday.
Virginia law makes it a felony to file a state income tax return with a false statement on it, made with intent to defraud the Commonwealth. The statute is Virginia Code section 58.1-348, it carries up to five years in prison per count, and the clock has not run out on the returns Thomas filed for tax years 2020 through 2024. That is the whole case, and unlike everything else, it is a case a county prosecutor in Virginia has the plain authority to bring.
Throw all the books at him
And this is why we are all poor, this is why billionaires keep stealing from us, because of greedy no backbone failures like him.
lol we all know nothing is going to fucking happen
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Yeah that’s what I told everyone when Trump was convicted of 34 felony charges :(
If it comes down to it, Trump will just pardon him as “a victim of the radical left”.
The good news it’s the state of Virginia, not the federal government, that could file these charges, so the president would have no ability to pardon it. The bad news is that it’s purely hypothetical. We can all see the crime was committed, but that doesn’t mean a Virginia prosecutor will actually go through with pursuing the case on any day.
Watch thomas sue, let it get all the way to the SCROTUS and Thomas doesn’t recuse himself.
this looks like a state charge. trump (theoretically) has no control over state pardons.
Yes but there won’t be any charges. This article is only saying that the state could charge him, if it decided to.
The worst part of this is that even if he is convicted and removed from the judiciary, Trump gets to pick his replacement, so it will not only not fix anything but will very likely make it worse.
I mean the trial will take time and if Democrats get to control Congress after midterms they could just not confirm any of Trump’s picks. Who am I joking, the Democrats would never.
The least reliable members of the facist block of SCOTUS are those appointed by Mr. Trump.
He’s really, really bad at the job.
thats a pretty astute observation. still, narrowly missing a “state-level charlie kirk” because the fascists are just fucking bad at the job is not the type of comfort I hope for.
Monday is a federal holiday.
Just like Al Capone.
Leona Helmsley was a prophet: “We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”
Calling it now, nothing will come of this.
Yeah, I’m jaded and cynical. Can you blame me?
Get him
That would be lovely. Nothing will come of it, of course, and he’ll just scream “racism!!” but it would still be nice.
Wait—Monday’s a holiday. Nothing’s going to happen on Monday.
The black guy is taking the fall, what are the odds. At any rate hopefully good riddance, any fraud should be investigated, hope they all will.
