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Why should he be an exception while everyone else is expected to repay loans?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-finance-committee-probe-clarence-231312783.html
Senate Finance Committee probe into Clarence Thomas finds that he didn’t disclose loan for RV

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to repay a “significant” portion of a $267,230 loan from a friend that allowed him to buy a luxury motorcoach in 1999, according to a memo issued Wednesday by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee.

But hours after the report appeared on the committee’s website, a lawyer for Thomas disputed its findings in a rare statement.

“The loan was never forgiven,” Elliot S. Berke, a lawyer for Thomas, said in a statement, adding that “any suggestion to the contrary is false.”


Berke’s statement appeared at odds with the committee’s findings.

The committee said in the memo that documents it reviewed showed Thomas only paid some interest on the loan. The committee also said the omission from the justice’s financial disclosure forms raises fresh questions about whether he “properly reported the associated income on his tax returns.”

But Berke said that Thomas and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, made the necessary payments.

“The Thomases made all payments to Mr. Welters on a regular basis until the terms of the agreement were satisfied in full,” he said. Berke declined to provide additional information.

The New York Times first reported the congressional memorandum Wednesday and in August, on the financial arrangement between Thomas and his friend Anthony Welters, which triggered Democrats on the Senate committee to launch their investigation.

Why should he be an exception while everyone else is expected to repay loans?
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