Justice Alito pushes back on report detailing travel, trip with billionaire
ProPublica said the man later had business before the court. Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued a public rebuttal to a new report detailing a luxury vacation he took with a wealthy hedge fund manager who later had Business before the Supreme Court. According to ProPublica, Alito accompanied billionaire Paul Singer on a fishing trip in 2008. Alito was flown there on a private jet provided by Singer, which the investigative outlet said would have cost more than $100,000 one-way. The trip went undisclosed on his financial disclosures for 2008, the report said, and Singer's business later went before the court at least 10 times, including a 2014 case in which Alito sided with the majority in Singer's favor -- raising ethical concerns, ProPublica said. MORE: Chief Justice John Roberts defends Supreme Court's 'highest standards of conduct,' offers no new rules Justice Alito declined to answer questions posed by ProPublica, the outlet said, and instead tried t...