Woman told House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz have sex with minor, her lawyer says

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Woman told House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz have **** with minor, her lawyer says

US representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) attends the second day of the 2024 *********** National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024.

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A woman told the House Ethics Committee that she saw Matt Gaetz, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the U.S. attorney general, have **** with a minor, her lawyer said Friday.

“My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed Rep. Gaetz having **** with a minor at a house party in Orlando in 2017,” Joel Leppard said.

Gaetz, a far-right *********** U.S. representative, resigned from Congress on Wednesday after Trump announced plans to nominate him for attorney general, has denied all allegations of ******* misconduct.

Leppard said the woman he represents testified before the House Ethics Committee in April.

He said he represents two witnesses who have provided testimony to the committee regarding Gaetz. 

“The ********* people deserve to know the truth about the person slated to become the top law enforcement officer in the country” Leppard told NBC News. 

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 that Leppard had said his client had testified before the panel.

“Merrick Garland’s DOJ cleared Matt Gaetz and didn’t charge him. Are you alleging Garland is part of a cover-up?” a spokesperson for Gaetz said Friday.

Gaetz, 42, who represented Florida’s District 1 covering part of the Florida Panhandle, was investigated by the FBI on ****-trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old and 

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 with any ******.

The federal investigation ended last year. Gaetz 

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 he was the target of an extortion plot.

A House Ethics Committee investigation was launched in April 2021. It was deferred at the request of the Department of Justice and 

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 after the department withdrew that deferral request.

What happens with the committee’s report now that Gaetz has resigned from Congress ******** unclear.

Some *********** senators say 

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 before a confirmation vote.

On Friday, *********** House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to 

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, saying that because Gaetz is no longer in Congress doing so would be a “terrible breach of protocol.”

The Senate is supposed to vote on whether Gaetz is confirmed as attorney general, although 

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. Trump has called for the *********** Senate majority to allow him to make recess appointments.

The House Ethics Committee, which is bipartisan and made up of 10 members, was supposed to meet Friday to discuss the report on Gaetz and whether to release it to the public, but that was called off on Thursday, a source said.

Gaetz practiced law at a Florida law firm before being elected as a state representative. He was first elected to Congress in the 2016 election and began his first term in early 2017. He was re-elected in November.

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