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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private jet travel, senator says

Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House in April 2017.
Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House in April 2017. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

The conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private travel on a jet owned by the rightwing mega-donor Harlan Crow, a Democratic senator said on Monday, amid a swirling ethics scandal and demands for judiciary reform.

“I am deeply concerned that Mr Crow may have been showering a public official with extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill,” Ron Wyden of Oregon, the Senate finance committee chair, told a lawyer for Crow in a letter.

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