Kendal B Price, a whistleblower and John Roberts’ former colleague, said that the Chief Justice’s wife Jane Sullivan Roberts was paid more than $ 10 million in commission by top law firms. He made the claims during an interview with Business Insider.
Price said that Jane received the payments between 2007 and 2014. The news website describes him as Chief Justice John Roberts’ ‘disgruntled’ former colleague.
“When I found out that the spouse of the chief justice was soliciting business from law firms, I knew immediately that it was wrong,” Price told Insider in an interview.
The whistleblower further added that he was silenced at the time.
“During the time I was there, I was discouraged from ever raising the issue. And I realized that even the law firms who were Jane’s clients had nowhere to go. They were being asked by the spouse of the chief justice for business worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there was no one to complain to.”
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Price added that most of the firms that paid off Jane Sullivan were seeking to appear before the Supreme Court.
“Most of these firms were likely appearing or seeking to appear before the Supreme Court. It’s natural that they’d do anything they felt was necessary to be competitive,” he said.
Earlier this year, Jane Sullivan was under scrutiny after her former colleague sent a letter to Congress and the Justice Department saying that her stint as a legal recruiter would cause a conflict of interest at the Supreme Court.
That complaint was filed by Kendal Price.
“I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges’ households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms,” Price had told the New York Times at the time.
