Senator calls on Republican mega-donor to explain Clarence Thomas gifts

Harlan Crow. ‘The American public deserves a full accounting of the full extent of your largesse towards Justice Thomas,’ Ron Wyden’s letter says. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Democratic chairperson of the US Senate finance committee, Ron Wyden, has written to the Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow demanding an end to “unacceptable” secrecy around his gifts to the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas.

“The secrecy surrounding your dealings with Justice Thomas is simply unacceptable,” Wyden, from Oregon, wrote in the open letter.