I grok what you're getting at. I just wonder if the IRS rules fully cover that. The only time I saw imputed income be accounted for was when it was from the company I was formally employed by. Gifts received by Thomas either need the tax paid by the donor, or else Thomas needs to pay it, so both donor and Thomas' tax returns are at question. As far as court disclosure laws? Well, we all know what would have been moral in that case. The question is, is the regulation strong enough to hold him to that moral standard.
In my book breaking the moral, by itself, is enough to trigger Thomas' removal from the Court. We can be neither judged, nor ruled by someone who would not submit themselves to the same standards we ourselves are expected to follow.
To allow Thomas to remain is to prostitute the very standard he claims to enforce. That's a crime, in the book of humanity.
skykiss