The House Ethics Committee has found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex and drugs on at least 20 occasions, including sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2017. According to the final draft of the commission’s report on the Florida Republican, obtained by CNN. The committee says in a bombshell document that Gaetz violated Florida law, including statutory rape statutes, after the Republican-led committee chose the unusual step of releasing a report on a former lawmaker who resigned from the Legislature. I concluded. Gates has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, pointing to the Justice Department’s refusal to bring charges against him in 2023. In a statement Gates released on X last week after CNN reported that the committee had voted to release its report, he denied having sex with women. Minors or women paying for sex. “When I was single, I often sent money to women I dated, including women I never dated but who asked me to. I dated several women for years,” Gates said. spoke. “It’s not a crime, but it’s embarrassing that early in my life I probably partied more than I should, womanized, drank, and smoked. I’m living a different life now.”
