The congressional ethics investigators said Matt Gaetz violated state laws. He allegedly paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex. He also allegedly purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
“From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use,” noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.
The committee said it also received testimony that at a 2017 party, Gaetz twice had sex with “Victim A,” who was 17 years old at the time and had just completed her junior year in high school.
“Victim A recalled receiving $400 in cash from Representative Gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex,” the committee wrote. “Victim A said that she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask her age.”
Gaetz denies all of it. The DoJ had all the same evidence and found the witnesses lacked credibility.
It’s unethical to leak a report like this. He didn’t get to defend himself.
Gaetz has left Congress, and the release is meant to keep him out of government in perpetuity.
Watch:
BREAKING: House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz released.
It alleges s*x with a minor and illicit drug use.
Gaetz has denied these allegations.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 23, 2024
Added after publication:
This is so disgusting. If you think he’s guilty of something, charge him. Don’t smear him without the ability to clear his name in a fair proceeding where he can present evidence. I’m so sick of this crap. https://t.co/iR1vxd0iDs
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 23, 2024
Doesn’t mean he is innocent. Plenty of evidence showing this is all most likely all factual. Just because it can’t be proven in court does not mean he is innocent.
Then you need to apply that standard to BOTH sides of the aisle. I’ll wait….
That’s fine with me. No argument here.
Like the J6 report, no response can counter the accusations. Every MSM outlet both left and right will play this over and over but Gaetz will never get to rebut any of it.
Turn about is fair play. It’s time to release the dirt on Congresscritters, no matter the affiliation.
The Epstein files should be open in a month along with the correct Warren Report on JFK, too.
I want to know what and who caused the debacle in Benghazi.
Let’s open this corrupt carcass up and let out the stinking secrets.
I don’t care. I don’t believe any of it. I hope he runs for the Senate and wins BIGLY! We need his voice, and we need his vote. We also need to see all the lists and reports.
Cool – Now do Obama.
People INSIDE FLORIDA tell me that Gaetz was set up for this a long time ago. They hate Constitutional Conservatives down there, and had a strong hunch he was going to be a good one. This was done, conveniently enough, by a scumbag in a central Florida county who specialized in fake id’s for non-citizens. So, he gave Gaetz’s love interest one which said she was 18 when she was not yet of that age. The “out of state” stuff was when he drove over the panhandle line and took her to dinner in Alabama…what a criminal!
Just wait for the Hypocrisy of the democRATS.
Listening to the outrage from the left, all I can deduce is he is a heterosexual… and he liked to party. If he paid the 17 year old $400, he wasn’t informed of her age till she pipes up later during the investigation. I am sure those investigating were looking for some derogatory info. My question was the $400 and any other money the committee may have rendered reported on her income tax. Doubt if any on that committee looked into that. Fxck the Trump haters!
Time to see all the list. Epstein’s, Diddy’s, who used the slush fund and the list of every single recipient of interest off the National Debt. If we find that anyone who voted for a debt ceiling increase received even a dime of interest they need to be arrested and held for trial on the charge of treason. The debt is a national security risk.
Well great really doesn’t matter what the ethics report says he was already investigated by the DOJ and they said there was nothing there.
But since they’ve went ahead and done this let’s start releasing the names that the people were paid off and what congressman for the slush fund they have for sexual assault using taxpayer dollars.
MATT…It is right that you have been brought into account and are having to pay for your bad deeds. It is WRONG, however, for those who had done much worse to expose your bad deeds while turning a blind eye to their own. Obama smoked crack and had sex with men. We have a pedophile for President. We have had mentally ill transgenders heading up high positions in congress, and perverts are running the country. The hypocrisy is appalling.
So Matt…we all KNOW this is McCarthy & RINO revenge. Since you have means…hire a private investigator on McCarthy—we all also know you won’t have dig too deeply to find even worse. He’s a snake.
Also, set up a GoFundMe account to investigate those you know who have greater sins but who targeted you. I will contribute. Make them rue the day they did this, and at the same time, help us clean house. Because those who are compromised are being blackmailed by the Dems, they need to be gone.
Matt…even when God turns our lives around, He does NOT stop the law of the harvest…”you will reap what you sow” and “things done in secret will be brought to light.” There is always payday, someday, even if that someday is in the afterlife.
But here is the GOOD NEWS for you…it’s over. It’s all out there. What you feared…that which kept you up at night…has no more hold on you. You are free from the chains of shame. The price of exposure has been paid, and you now walk in freedom.
This is the whole principle of Christian Confession…we are all as sick as our secrets. The damage is done. Do not cover or deny, but confess whatever is true, ask forgiveness, make it right with whomever you wronged, and if needed, apologize to the women. Now breathe. Is it the air sweet?
Wait until the congressional slush fund is released (all members of Congress).
Oh boy.
May gaetz and Joel Greenberg diddle kids. This site is so biased it’s ridiculous
The site is very biased; it seeks for and then publishes the truth. The fact that you label the truth ‘ridiculous’, reveals you as a typical denizen of the Daily Kos, totally living in your very small subjective reality world. Has the Biden administration offered you a federal judgeship yet?
Unlike you, serious commentators here, cite credible sources.
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