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.
To be clear (because it isn’t totally obvious from the title and text submitted on Lemmy), this article is a call to action, not reporting on a filing that’s actually happened or rumored to be in progress or anything like that:
He could be charged Monday. Or Tuesday. Or he could’ve been charged last Monday. There’s three people in Virginia who have the power to make that happen, you should go call and email them.
Surely it’s better to wait until trump is no longer president, otherwise if this forces Thomas to resign trump gets yet another supreme court pick who will be as young as possible to guarantee the court doesn’t swing back around for another 40 years
Action to do what? A People’s Arrest?
Let me know when we reconvene the Revolutionary Tribunals. Then write the article
They want us to contact the elected officials who can take action. I doubt anything happens but worth a shot.
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Yup. Just answering. This whole thing is just a wish though.