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- Insider obtained a guest list for a 2017 event on "Billionaire Mountain" that featured top judges.
- Law firms paid $10,000 a year for access to such exclusive gatherings – and their clients came, too.
- Meryl Chertoff introduced Kagan that night. Her husband, Michael Chertoff, later worked for SCOTUS.
Champagne flowed at a 2017 Aspen Institute event, held at a mansion on "Billionaire Mountain," where $10,000-year donors and their guests rubbed shoulders with some of the nation's most powerful judges.