A final draft of a House Ethics Committee report obtained by CBS News alleges that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid numerous women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex and purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office. The report concludes Gaetz violated multiple House Rules and standards of conduct.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz , a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have 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.
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.
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