Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew whom he claimed to have raised “like a son” is now sitting in a South Carolina jail awaiting trial on drugs and weapons charges, Business Insider reports, and he hasn’t spoken to the self-described father figure in his life for years.
Mark Martin, now 32 years old, lived with Clarence and Ginni Thomas from 1997 to 2010, and he benefited from the largess of Clarence’s friend Harlan Crow, who paid Martin’s tuition at two different private boarding schools.
“I haven’t really heard much from them in a long time,” Martin said from the Jasper County Detention Center. “I tried to communicate with them a couple of times, but I’ve never gotten any response.”