Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden asks conservative billionaire Harlan Crow to provide a full account of extravagant undisclosed trips, gifts, and payments that he's made to Justice Thomas over the years.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have launched a separate effort to dig into the allegations against Thomas,Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate the recent findings about undisclosed gifts and trips.
In his letter, Wyden asked for a detailed list of all of Thomas' free flights aboard Crow's private jets and superyacht, an accounting of federal gift tax returns for gifts made to Thomas or his family and information about three Georgia properties Crow bought from Thomas and his relatives. The letter also asks whether any company Crow owns treated any travel on Crow’s yacht or private jets that included Thomas as business expenses for tax purposes.
While there are exemptions from the gift tax for certain payments, Wyden noted,"none of these exemptions appear to apply to any gifts you made to Justice Thomas."Crow Holdings, of which Crow is chairman of the board, did not immediately respond to a request for comment; neither did the Supreme Court.and said that early in his tenure he had been advised that “personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable.
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