Sufficient evidence exists in the public record.

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.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    1·
    21 minutes ago

    I have been hearing about this guys corruption and scandals since the early 90s.

    Hes living proof of why lifetime Supreme Court appointments should not exist

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    That asshole really needs to fall for all the corruption he has been part of.
    But it’s doubtful it will ever happen.
    Americans simply don’t do enough against corruption, no matter how bad and no matter how obvious.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Jesus Christ.

    There’s a difference between possible and probable. This headline is extremely misleading. It might as well say Clarence Thomas could have monkeys fly out of his butt on Monday.

    Is it possible? Yes.

    Is it probable? No.

    I understand this is “a call to action” but the headline is disingenuous.

  • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    No, he won’t.

    Should he? Yes, he should have been dragged out behind the courthouse 20 years. But he’s not going to ever face any consequences for betraying this country or for taking bribes, even though he’s made a career out of doing both.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    261·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve got to say it. This is a case the Biden DOJ could have brought too. And Obama. The Democrats have got to stop playing games. They should have immediately changed it up when Obama was denied justice picks.

  • BilSabab@lemmy.world
    16·
    12 hours ago

    how is this guy still employed? honest question - dude has litany of corruption accusations going back decades and he’s still holding a position? How does that work?

      • blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        NOBODY should be appointed for life. That shit stinks of dictatorship real bad.

        What bad could come of letting someone make important decisions, someone who has become deranged as their brain atrophies and also desperate as death looms large, someone with no future and no stake in the consequences of their decisions?

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          The idea behind the SC being lifetime appointments was to insulate it from political pressure, unlike the president and Congress which are suceptible to removal. The SC is (supposed to be) a rather apolitical body that determines if the laws passed are unconstitutional, in order to preserve basic rights.

          Right now, it’s rife with partisan hacks, and it need to be removed and rebuilt from the ground up. Absolutely none of the current Republican justices meet the qualifications nor strength of character to be SC jucsticies.

    • kinther@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 hours ago

      The filing should be easy. Proving it might be tough. He knows enough to deny, defend, depose.