Did you read in that very Code what "personal" gifts need not be reported? "Food, lodging, or entertainment." Nary a word about travel expense.
This is quite apart from the question of when something is "personal."
BTW the section you cite is for gifts to spouses or dependents. The rule applying to the individual is section 5 U.S. Code § 13104 (A) (2) A: "except that any food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality of an individual need not be reported," If that cigar was worth more than $100 it too should have been reported.
Actually, 13104 (E) doesn't have subparts. What you tried to cite is actually § 13104 A (e)(1)(c).
In the case of any gifts received by a spouse or dependent child which are not received totally independent of the relationship of the spouse or dependent child to the reporting individual, the identity of the source and a brief description of gifts of transportation, lodging, food, or entertainment and a brief description and the value of other gifts.
Thus, if Ginni's took trips with Clarence, all HER lodging, food and entertainment and transportation needed to be reported. If the total was over a million, all he had to report was that the total income, etc was over a million and didn't need to be itemized. I have no idea what he reported about Ginni--given all her other activities, that particular blanket revelation might indeed have been made.
You are correct, I rushed and was clearly wrong on citation, and was looking at 5 U.S. Code §13104(a)(2)(A), and was not actually looking at dependents for the core of this exchange, though that can be an issue for other cases, such as those involving government contractors.
As I said at the outset, parsing a statute can be hard. I spent a career doing a lot of it. I would like to think that someone as presumably qualified as a Supreme Court Justice could figure it out.
Did you read in that very Code what "personal" gifts need not be reported? "Food, lodging, or entertainment." Nary a word about travel expense.
This is quite apart from the question of when something is "personal."
BTW the section you cite is for gifts to spouses or dependents. The rule applying to the individual is section 5 U.S. Code § 13104 (A) (2) A: "except that any food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality of an individual need not be reported," If that cigar was worth more than $100 it too should have been reported.
Actually, 13104 (E) doesn't have subparts. What you tried to cite is actually § 13104 A (e)(1)(c).
In the case of any gifts received by a spouse or dependent child which are not received totally independent of the relationship of the spouse or dependent child to the reporting individual, the identity of the source and a brief description of gifts of transportation, lodging, food, or entertainment and a brief description and the value of other gifts.
Thus, if Ginni's took trips with Clarence, all HER lodging, food and entertainment and transportation needed to be reported. If the total was over a million, all he had to report was that the total income, etc was over a million and didn't need to be itemized. I have no idea what he reported about Ginni--given all her other activities, that particular blanket revelation might indeed have been made.
You are correct, I rushed and was clearly wrong on citation, and was looking at 5 U.S. Code §13104(a)(2)(A), and was not actually looking at dependents for the core of this exchange, though that can be an issue for other cases, such as those involving government contractors.
As I said at the outset, parsing a statute can be hard. I spent a career doing a lot of it. I would like to think that someone as presumably qualified as a Supreme Court Justice could figure it out.