(NewsNation) —Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas filed an amendment to his financial disclosures Friday acknowledging for the first time that he accepted luxury travel to Indonesia and an all-male California retreat in 2019 from Republican billionaire Harlan Crow.
In the new filing, Thomas wrote that that he “inadvertently omitted” the trips on his previous reports, reported ProPublica.
ProPublica had initially reported the trips taken by Thomas, but he had pushed back at the time saying he did not need to disclose such gifts, the outlet reported.
“Justice Thomas’s critics allege that he failed to report gifts from wealthy friends,” his lawyer previously said in a statement issued on the justice’s behalf. “Untrue.”
Financial disclosures remain one of the few forms of publicly available accountability for Supreme Court Justices.
