Posted on 08/02/2005 5:36:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
John Roberts is a $6 million man, with a fancy golf club membership and some hefty investments, according to a financial statement filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 83-page document released Tuesday shows Roberts' home in the fashionable Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md., is worth $1.3 million. His investment portfolio includes $291,200 in XM Satellite Radio, $264,000 in Dell computers and $106,553 in Texas Instruments. His total worth is $6 million, despite the big pay cut he took in 2003 when he left the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where he was a partner earning in excess of $1 million a year, for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a salary of $171,800.
Other sources of income this year include $25,000 to teach a seminar on Supreme Court litigation at Georgetown University and $4,500 to teach a course on international trade at the University College London.
He's been a member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia since 1992, The Lawyers Club of Washington since 1996 and The Metropolitan Club since 1995. Roberts' wife, Jane S. Roberts, also a lawyer, owns a one-eighth share of a family cottage in Ireland. Her portion is worth $10,000.
Roberts listed a home mortgage of $790,000, at a 30-year fixed rate of 5.625 percent.
More like a peasant
I'll take the Swiftian view and modestly suggest eating the rich.
And this is bad how? I would think that having plenty of money would stop any worries of his taking bribes.
Thou shalt not covet.
At least he earned it instead of living off rich aunts and marrying two heiresses like JF'nK.
Sometime NewsMax really gets on my nerves
I know they have the right to do it. The question is should they?
Unlike this guy, I HOPE ALL HIS PARTS ARE REAL. :-)
You read it, didn't you?
As much as you and I may publicly think that it's not appropriate, we are on this thread. And people buy scandal rags.
If it's a product that sells, it's a product that will be sold.
"Unlike this guy, I HOPE ALL HIS PARTS ARE REAL. :-)"
Well, that might explain why his kids are adopted...
JUST KIDDING, JUST KIDDING!
If you do the math..it means that Roberts has been preparing for this for a decade..He made good money, as did his wife..though she's part-time at her firm...Figuring they wre in a 40% tax bracket..it means they've saved most everything they've earned after taxes for a decade....because he knew he'd be taking a biu pay cut for the rest of his life..also..his house has at least double in value since they bought it..
Covet ? That's the Donk Party's byword.
Actually, Supreme Court justices often make a lot of money writing books. As far as I know, every justice in recent history has been rather wealthy.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/317927p-271929c.html
It's an AP story, not NewsMax's.
Don't you know that when it comes to destroying a Republican nominee, nothing is off limits? They dug through Clarence Thomas' garbage cans and splashed his movie rental habits all over the front pages. When this is done to conservatives, it's "good journalism."
My guess is the media will dig into this Robert Trent Jones Golf Club with a vengeance now, dissecting the private lives of all current and past members, following every dime of money that has passed through it with the kind of zeal seen by prosecutors looking into Mob money laundering, and implying that it has a racist past even if there is no evidence of this and saying that this proves Roberts is a racist.
I was thinking more along the lines of Steve Austin. If it had been titled "John Roberts Personal Finances" I likely would have passed it by.
If it's a product that sells, it's a product that will be sold.
Not disputing that and gossip is as old as language. I just find it troubling and rather creepy that someone would want to do it. Maybe I am not expressing it properly. Maybe I am just suffering from a over load of TMI.
FOFLMAO... Oh I love that TAG Line.. that great!!!!!!!
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