House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz paid for sex, including with an underage girl | Dec. 23

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There was no guarantee that a long-awaited House Ethics Committee report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz would ever see the light of day, especially once the Florida GOP lawmaker abruptly quit his job last month in Congress.

Legal experts have told Newsweek that former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz could be charged with taking drugs and having sex with a minor. It follows a House Ethics Committee report alleging that the Republican potentially committed crimes, including statutory rape. Statutory rape occurs when a person is too young to legally give consent to sex.

Gaetz on Monday tried to block the report's official release, filing for a restraining order in Washington, D.C., federal court.

Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, allegedly paid for two women in 2019 to travel to New York to have sex, a lawyer for the women says. The House Ethics Committee ...

The House Ethics Committee released a long-awaited report on its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

The House Ethics Committee’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., includes evidence he paid women for sex, including one who was underage.

The disgraced former Florida representative now faces the blunt reality of his own political irrelevance. T he normal rules of public disgrace may no longer apply to Donald Trump. But at least some expectation of good behavior remains, it seems, for a politician in Trump’s orbit.

The former member of Congress has hinted at a possible run for elected office down the line. His allies urged him to fight.

Matt Gaetz . The House Ethics Committee found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, includi