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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 21, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito failed to disclose a luxury fishing trip he took with billionaire Paul Singer, and then declined to recuse himself from cases involving the hedge fund founder, ProPublica alleges in a new report. At issue is a July 2008 trip in which Alito flew free on Singer’s private jet and stayed at a fishing lodge charging more than $1,000 per night. In the years following the trip, Singer’s hedge fund came before the Supreme Court at least 10 times, including in a bond default case decided in the fund’s favor, the watchdog group says. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Alito said he was not required to disclose the trip under rules in place at the time, adding that he did not know Singer was a party to some of the cases and never discussed pending litigation with him. Bloomberg News has a recap of the report’s findings, which also included allegations that Justice Antonin Scalia failed to report free jet travel and a stay at the same lodge in 2005.