Ethics Report Says Matt Gaetz Paid Minor for Intercourse, Did Illegal Drugs
The bombshell Matt Gaetz report from Congress drops sordid particulars about him paying $90,000 for intercourse and medicines — along with quite a lot of hook-ups with a 17-year-old highschool scholar.
The House Ethics Committee found the earlier congressman paid a dozen ladies for intercourse between 2017 and 2020 … in response to CBS Info, which obtained a reproduction of the 37-page report which the Committee launched last week it might be releasing.
The report says one in every of many women 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 1000’s of {{dollars}} in funds to women” which it determined was “in all probability in reference to sexual train or drug use.”
The then-17-year-old, referred to inside the report as “Sufferer A,” testified for the Committee that Gaetz gave her $400 in cash all through a 2017 celebration, which she “understood to be charge for intercourse.” They allegedly had intercourse twice on the celebration, and the girl says she didn’t inform Gaetz she was under 18, nor did he ask.
The report says all the women interviewed talked about they’d had consensual intercourse with Gaetz.
Gaetz, who resigned from Congress last month after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to be U.S. Authorized skilled Widespread, refused to regulate to a subpoena to testify sooner than the Committee … and, as a substitute, submitted written responses.
He’s denied the Committee’s claims, insisting his actions all through his 30s have been “embarrassing, nonetheless not felony” … and the funds have been presents to girlfriends. He’s continued to stage out the Division of Justice dropped its investigation into the allegations.
The Committee says there’s “substantial proof” Gaetz violated House Pointers or necessities of conduct which prohibit soliciting “prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible presents, specific favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
Gaetz has bowed out of competitors for Authorized skilled Widespread.
The Ethics Committee moreover says it obtained texts the place Gaetz referred to medication — along with ecstasy and cocaine — as “celebration favors,” “rolls” and “dietary nutritional vitamins … and claims he had a fake e mail created to buy marijuana.
