Penguin Random House
40 Mentions
15 Reimbursements
$2.6M Income Paid
Penguin Random House has been linked to three current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.
![Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Sotomayor](/supreme-connections/assets/sonia-sotomayor-9adc21925b8306aa2d2de3c63b41baa3e5e3e7fe.webp)
![Neil Gorsuch Neil Gorsuch](/supreme-connections/assets/neil-gorsuch-ff079357474d821fffd297e6ca63129d8e1cb457.webp)
![Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson](/supreme-connections/assets/ketanji-brown-jackson-7ec54758d8a7c7b5288207755a5df03c439e58ad.webp)
3 Justices
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Sonia Sotomayor $1M income • 31 mentions
$1M income • 31 mentionsNoninvestment 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.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2023 $47,704.63 Royalties Book royalties
2023 $39,079.59 Royalties Book royalties
2022 $29,999.70 Royalties Book royalties
2022 $79,428.00 Royalties Book royalties
2022 $40,067.48 Royalties Book royalties
2021 $71,447.39 Royalties Book royalties
2021 $44,146.00 Royalties Book royalties
2020 $82,807.49 Royalties Book royalties
2020 $33,334.00 Royalties Book advance
2020 $62,707.23 Royalties Book royalties
2020 $33,333.00 Book Advance Book advance
2019 $10,947.53 Royalties Book royalties
2019 $10,586.11 Royalties Book royalties
2018 $12,500.00 Other Book-Related Income 2018 $500.00 Other Book-Related Income 2018 $10,000.00 Other Book-Related Income 2018 $10,000.00 Other Book-Related Income 2017 $40,000.00 Other Book-Related Income 2017 $317,500.00 Other Book-Related Income 2017 $40,000.00 Other Book-Related 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.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Oct. 26 – 29, 2019 Austin, TX Book Event Participation at Texas Book Festival
Food, Lodging, Transportation Oct. 25 – 26, 2019 New Orleans, LA Speaking Conversation with participants at American Association of Pediatrics Conference
Food, Lodging, Transportation Oct. 18, 2019 Meriden, CT Speaking, Teaching Conversation with students at Maloney High School
Transportation Sept. 13 – 17, 2019 Seneca Falls, NY Book Event, Speaking Participation in book event including Women’s National Hall of Fame
Transportation Sept. 13 – 17, 2019 Seneca Falls, NY Book Event Participation in book event including Women’s National Hall of Fame
Transportation Sept. 11 – 12, 2019 Chicago, IL Book Event Conversation with students sponsored by Women and Children First bookstore
Food, Lodging, Transportation Sept. 4 – 9, 2019 Cincinnati, OH; Los Angeles and Oakland, CA; Portland, OR and Albuquerque, NM Book Event Participation in various book-related events
Food, Lodging, Transportation Aug. 31 – Sept. 1, 2019 Decatur, GA Book Event Participation in Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival
Food, Lodging, Transportation June 8 – 9, 2019 New York, NY Book Event Participation in Bronx Book Festival
Transportation May 30 – 31, 2019 New York, NY Book Event Participation in New York Book Expo
Transportation Jan. 21 – 24, 2019 San Juan and Humacao, PR Book Event, Speaking Participation in book events
Transportation Neil Gorsuch $655K income • 8 mentions
$655K income • 8 mentionsNoninvestment 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.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2020 $100,000.00 Royalties Royalty income
2019 $325,000.00 Royalties Book royalties
2019 $5,000.00 Other Book-Related Income Audio book recording
2018 $225,000.00 Royalties Royalty 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.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 20 – 21, 2019 Salt Lake City, UT Book Event Participation in book-related events
Transportation Sept. 17 – 20, 2019 Philadelphia, PA and Dallas and Austin, TX Book Event Participation in book-related events
Food, Hotel, Transportation Sept. 9 – 12, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Book Event Participation in book-related events
Food, Hotel, Transportation Sept. 6, 2019 Austin, TX Book Event Participation in book-related events
Transportation Ketanji Brown Jackson $893.8K income 1 mention
$893.8K income 1 mentionNoninvestment 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.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2023 $893,750.00 Book Advance Paid through KayPac LLC
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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