Singer CLEARLY had business before the court...and he's flying justices around for luxury trips?
Two Tiered system of justice is on full display at the conservative led Supreme Court?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/samuel-alito-paul-singer-propublica/index.html
Alito disputes new ProPublica report that says justice failed to disclose trip with billionaire who later had business before Supreme Court
By Ariane de Vogue and Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN
Updated 9:07 AM EDT, Wed June 21, 2023
Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose a luxury 2008 trip he took in which a hedge fund billionaire flew him on a private jet, even though the businessman would later repeatedly ask the Supreme Court to intervene on his behalf, ProPublica reported.
In a highly unusual move, Alito preemptively disputed the nature of the report before it published Tuesday night, authoring an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he acknowledged knowing billionaire Paul Singer but downplaying their relationship.
The new report adds to the growing list of ethics questions surrounding the court, which have become a key focus of congressional Democrats. Earlier this year, reporting by ProPublica about a relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and a frequent Republican donor led to calls for greater transparency about the financial disclosure process for the Supreme Court.
The publication said Singer flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet and that the justice did not report the fishing trip or the private jet flight on his annual financial disclosure or recuse himself from cases involving Singer’s hedge fund that came before the court. In the years following the 2008 trip, the billionaire’s hedge fund “came before the court at least 10 times in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press and mainstream media,” ProPublica reported.
“In 2014, the court agreed to resolve a key issue in a decade-long battle between Singer’s hedge fund and the nation of Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the 7-1 majority in Singer’s favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid $2.4 billion,” according to ProPublica.
CNN has reached out to Singer’s company for comment, as well as the Supreme Court.
Two Tiered system of justice is on full display at the conservative led Supreme Court?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/samuel-alito-paul-singer-propublica/index.html
Alito disputes new ProPublica report that says justice failed to disclose trip with billionaire who later had business before Supreme Court
By Ariane de Vogue and Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN
Updated 9:07 AM EDT, Wed June 21, 2023
Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose a luxury 2008 trip he took in which a hedge fund billionaire flew him on a private jet, even though the businessman would later repeatedly ask the Supreme Court to intervene on his behalf, ProPublica reported.
In a highly unusual move, Alito preemptively disputed the nature of the report before it published Tuesday night, authoring an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he acknowledged knowing billionaire Paul Singer but downplaying their relationship.
The new report adds to the growing list of ethics questions surrounding the court, which have become a key focus of congressional Democrats. Earlier this year, reporting by ProPublica about a relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and a frequent Republican donor led to calls for greater transparency about the financial disclosure process for the Supreme Court.
The publication said Singer flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet and that the justice did not report the fishing trip or the private jet flight on his annual financial disclosure or recuse himself from cases involving Singer’s hedge fund that came before the court. In the years following the 2008 trip, the billionaire’s hedge fund “came before the court at least 10 times in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press and mainstream media,” ProPublica reported.
“In 2014, the court agreed to resolve a key issue in a decade-long battle between Singer’s hedge fund and the nation of Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the 7-1 majority in Singer’s favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid $2.4 billion,” according to ProPublica.
CNN has reached out to Singer’s company for comment, as well as the Supreme Court.
