Fox News analyst calls for investigation of Clarence Thomas corruption claims

Juan Williams calls supreme court justice my old friend' but says smell of financial corruption' has damaged institution

The supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must be investigated over allegations of corruption, his friend, the Fox News analyst Juan Williams, wrote on Monday.

Williams, who said he enjoyed a close multi-decade friendship with the controversial conservative justice, wrote that Thomas always represented the best ideals of what Black men ... could achieve in modern America" but that growing scandal over his relationship with the rightwing mega-donor Harlan Crow was worthy of investigation.