Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has amended more than 20 years of financial-disclosure forms to include $680,000 in payments to his wife, Virginia, by a conservative think tank. Thomas acted after Common Cause, a liberal advocacy group, noted that Thomas failed to disclose on the forms that his wife was paid by the Heritage Foundation from 2003 to 2007.
Federal judges are required to file annual financial-disclosure forms that list the employers of their spouses. Thomas said the omission of his wife’s employers, primarily conservative institutions, resulted from a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.
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