Sonia Sotomayor (2022)
Associate justice since Aug. 8, 2009
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.
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.
| Date/Year | Organization Name | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 7, 2022 | Penguin Random House | $40,067.48 |
Royalties
Book royalties |
| Oct. 25, 2022 | Penguin Random House | $79,428.00 |
Royalties
Book royalties |
| Oct. 25, 2022 | Francis Sillau and Mark Kurtz | $2,225.00 |
Other Book-Related Income
Payment for theater adaptation rights for “Just Ask” |
| March 10, 2022 | WildBrain | $10,116.00 |
Other Book-Related Income
Second option fee |
| March 10, 2022 | Penguin Random House | $29,999.70 |
Royalties
Book royalties |
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.
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| Date | Source | Location | Purpose | Items Paid or Provided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 20 – 21, 2022 | Just the Beginning - A Pipeline Organization | Chicago, IL |
Conference/Symposium
Participation in nonprofit organization national conference |
Food, Lodging, Transportation |
| July 17 – 22, 2022 | New York University | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Conference/Symposium
Participation in New York University Law Leadership Conference |
Food, Lodging, Transportation |
| April 3 – 5, 2022 | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO |
Teaching
Meeting with students, meeting with local judges |
Food, Lodging, Transportation |
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.
No gifts
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo |
Mortgage
Rental property, New York, NY |
$250,001 – $500,000 |
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: $1.6M – $6.6M
| Name | Category | Income Amount | Income Type | Gross Value Amount | Gross Value Method | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rental property in New York, NY
Appraised 2021
|
Real Estate | $5,001 – $15,000 | Rent | $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 | Appraisal | ||||||||
Citibank accounts
|
Cash Account | $0 – $1,000 | Interest | $250,001 – $500,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
Morgan Stanley Bank IRA
|
Retirement Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Interest | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
SPDR Nuveen Bloomberg Municipal Bond ETF
(TFI
)
Show Transactions (3)
Hide Transactions
|
Investment Fund | $2,501 – $5,000 | Dividend | $100,001 – $250,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
SPDR Nuveen Bloomberg Short Term Municipal Bond ETF
(SHM
)
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|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $50,001 – $100,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund, Inc. Investor A Shares
(MDLOX
)
|
Retirement Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
PIMCO Unconstrained Bond Fund
|
Retirement Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
(IEFA
)
Show Transactions (1)
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|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
(IEMG
)
Show Transactions (3)
Hide Transactions
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
(IWF
)
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF
(IWD
)
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF
(TLT
)
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|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF
(JPST
)
Show Transactions (1)
Hide Transactions
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $15,001 – $50,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
Morgan Stanley Bank
|
Cash Account | $0 – $1,000 | Interest | $0 – $15,000 | Cash Market | ||||||||
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF
(IWO
)
Show Transactions (2)
Hide Transactions
|
Investment Fund | $0 – $1,000 | Dividend | $0 – $15,000 | 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 III - A - Items 1-3 and 5 amounts listed are all net of literary agent's commission. All dates provided are dates of checks forwarded by literary agent.
Part III - A - Items 2, 3 and 5 - Publisher royalities for Turning Pages and Just Ask!. Penguin Random House has advised me that it disbursed a total of $1,200.00 to promote the sale of books of mine it has published.
Part III - A - Item 1 - Second option fee for potential television/video treatment of Just Ask!
Item III - A - In addition to the non-investment income items disclosed in this report, I am reporting a Conference of the Connecticut Forum, a 501(c)(3) organization which, among other programs sponsors the Connecticut Youth Form, one of which was held on November 15, 2022 in Hartford, CT. As I participated in the event virtually, no items were paid or provided to me. I report this event as the sponsors of the event purchased copies of my memior "My Beloved World" and another of my books "Just Ask!". All of the books were distributed to the young people attending the event in person.
Part IV - Item 1 - In conjunction with my meetings with Washington University students, the University purchased copies of my memoir "My Beloved Word", which were distributed to the students.
Part IV - Item 2 - In conjunction with my participation in the identified event, I extended my stay at my own expense for a private vacation in Scotland.
Part IV - Item 3 - Just the Beginning is sponsored in part by the Judicial Resources Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference.
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. (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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