The bombshell Matt Gaetz report from Congress drops sordid particulars about him paying $90,000 for intercourse and medicines — together with a number of hook-ups with a 17-year-old highschool pupil.
The Home Ethics Committee discovered the previous congressman paid a dozen ladies for intercourse between 2017 and 2020 … in response to CBS Information, which obtained a replica of the 37-page report which the Committee introduced final week it will be releasing.
The report says one of many ladies Gaetz paid was, on the time, a highschool junior he had intercourse with in entrance of others — and the Committee says it has receipts displaying “tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women” which it decided was “likely in connection with sexual activity or drug use.”
The then-17-year-old, referred to within the report as “Victim A,” testified for the Committee that Gaetz gave her $400 in money throughout a 2017 occasion, which she “understood to be payment for sex.” They allegedly had intercourse twice on the occasion, and the girl says she didn’t inform Gaetz she was beneath 18, nor did he ask.
The report says all the ladies interviewed mentioned they’d had consensual intercourse with Gaetz.
Gaetz, who resigned from Congress final month after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to be U.S. Legal professional Normal, refused to adjust to a subpoena to testify earlier than the Committee … and, as an alternative, submitted written responses.
He is denied the Committee’s claims, insisting his actions throughout his 30s have been “embarrassing, but not criminal” … and the funds have been items to girlfriends. He is continued to level out the Division of Justice dropped its investigation into the allegations.
The Committee says there’s “substantial evidence” Gaetz violated Home Guidelines or requirements of conduct which prohibit soliciting “prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible items, particular favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
Gaetz has bowed out of rivalry for Legal professional Normal.
The Ethics Committee additionally says it obtained texts the place Gaetz referred to medicine — together with ecstasy and cocaine — as “party favors,” “rolls” and “nutritional vitamins … and claims he had a pretend electronic mail created to purchase marijuana.
