Tag: Gifts to Public Officials

Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Is Toothless, Experts Say

The code of conduct issued on Monday, following reports of undisclosed travel and gifts, includes no enforcement mechanism and lets individual justices decide ethics questions for themselves.

Eric Adams’s Turkey Ties: Travel, Donations and a Meeting With Erdogan

Eric Adams, who says he has visited Turkey at least six times, has longstanding ties to the Turkish community. The F.B.I. is now investigating those connections.

Senate Panel Punts Effort to Force Testimony in Supreme Court Ethics Inquiry

The Judiciary Committee postponed votes to issue subpoenas for benefactors of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito after Republicans threatened a politically charged fight.

Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds

The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences.