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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took even more luxury trips paid for by real estate magnate Harlan Crow without disclosing them than had previously been reported, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday, asking Crow in a letter whether his gifts to Thomas are part of a broader scheme to “lower his tax bill”—including allegedly paying for Thomas to travel in Russia .
The Senate Finance Committee has discovered Thomas traveled on Crow’s private jet on a round trip between Hawaii and New Zealand in 2010, Wyden said, which had not previously been disclosed. A relative of Thomas also reported witnessing the justice travel on Crow’s private yacht in the Caribbean, Russia and the Baltics—with the trip to Russia also including travel via helicopter—according to the senator.
That Thomas “accepted free travel to Russia paid for by a billionaire and failed to disclose the trip” is “undoubtedly concerning and merits continued investigation,” Wyden wrote.
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