Samuel Alito (2023)
Associate justice since Jan. 31, 2006
Positions
Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.
| Report Year | Organization | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Catholic University of America | Honorary chair of the advisory council |
| 2023 | Duke University | Honorary advisory board member |
| 2023 | Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America | Honorary board member |
Agreements
Agreements include any agreements into which a justice has entered, such as employment contracts, continuing payments from former employers and continuing participation in employee welfare or benefit plans maintained by a former employer.
No agreements
Noninvestment income
Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.
No non-investment-income
Spousal income
Spousal income includes earned income from jobs a justice’s spouse has held, as well as honoraria. Justices are required to report a spouse’s income that exceeded $1,000 but are not required to disclose specific amounts.
No spouse-income
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values. Show more.
No reimbursements
Gifts
Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts whose aggregate value from the same source exceeds a certain threshold ($480 in 2023) within the reporting period and gifts that are individually worth more than 40% of that threshold. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete. Show more.
| Source | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Gloria von Thurn und Taxis | Concert tickets | $900.00 |
Liabilities
Liabilities include debts that exceeded $10,000 at any time during the reporting period for justices, their spouses or their dependent children. Because justices have to report these each year, some debts may show up multiple times in the table. Show more.
| Creditor | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Jones | Loan | $0 – $15,000 |
Investments
Investments include cash accounts, property, stocks, investment funds, retirement plans and other financial instruments owned by justices, their spouses and dependent children in excess of certain value thresholds or generating more than $200 in income in a year. Justices are not required to disclose information about their personal residences unless they generate rental income.
All Investment Holdings: $2.9M – $7.5M
| Name | Category | Income Amount | Income Type | Gross Value Amount | Gross Value Method | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard Small-Cap Stock Fund
|
Investment Fund | $5,001 – $15,000 | Dividend | $250,001 – $500,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund
|
Investment Fund | $5,001 – $15,000 | Dividend | $250,001 – $500,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Wellington Fund
|
Investment Fund | $15,001 – $50,000 | Dividend | $250,001 – $500,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund
|
Investment Fund | $5,001 – $15,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard TE Money Market
|
Money Market Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
PNC Bank accounts
|
Cash Account | $0 – $1,000 | Interest | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Bridge Builder Municipal Bond
(BBMUX
)
|
Investment Fund | None | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | |||
iShares National Muni Bond ETF
(MUB
)
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
T. Rowe Price Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
(PRVAX
)
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Admiral Shares
(VWIUX
)
|
Investment Fund | $5,001 – $15,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Limited-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Admiral Shares
(VMLUX
)
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Large-Cap Index Fund ETF
(VV
)
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF
(VUG
)
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||
Mineral interest in Grady County, OK
|
Other | None | $100,001 – $250,000 | Estimated | |||
Vanguard Windsor II Fund
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $50,001 – $100,000 | Cash Market |
Additional Information or Explanations
Additional information or explanations include a justice’s explanatory comments clarifying other portions of the report. These may include explanations of apparent inconsistencies with previous reports, third-party opinions on possible conflicts of interest or other supporting documentation.
Part VI, line 1. This loan was inadvertently omitted from certain prior reports. They are amended with the specified value codes as follows: 2022 (K), 2021 (K), 2020 (K), 2019 (K), 2018 (L), 2017 (L), 2016 (N), 2015 (N).
Part VII, line 22. This is part of the Duke University Retirement Plan. In July 2022, the managers of that Plan transitioned to the Vanguard Target Retirement Income fund from the substantially similar Vanguard Target Retirement Account 2015.
About The Data
The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. Our database also includes eight of Clarence Thomas’ disclosures from 1992 to 1999 provided by Documented. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)
Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.
In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.
After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].
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