Ethics Committee deadlocks on releasing Matt Gaetz sex, drug probe report

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Ethics Committee deadlocks on releasing Matt Gaetz ****, ***** probe report

Vice President-elect, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) (L) and former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) leave the U.S. Capitol after meeting with *********** members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 20, 2024 in Washington, DC.

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The bipartisan House Ethics Committee deadlocked Wednesday on whether to release a report on its investigation into allegations of ******* misconduct and other wrongdoing by former *********** Rep. Matt Gaetz.

The outcome of the vote means that the report on Gaetz, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. attorney general, will not be released for the time being.

Ethics Chair Michael Guest, R-Miss., told reporters after the closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, “There has been no agreement to release the report.”

But Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, the panel’s ranking Democrat, pushed back on that characterization.

“The chairman has essentially suggested that there was agreement of the members of the committee, which there most definitely was not,” she said.

She stressed that the vote in the 10-member committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, fell along partisan lines.

“There was no consensus on this issue,” Wild said.

She noted that the panel did agree to reconvene on Dec. 5 to “further consider this matter.”

When asked if she agreed with Guest’s prior remark that the panel’s report is unfinished, Wild paused before saying, “I really don’t care to comment on the status of the report, except to say that we were in a position to vote today.”

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centered on whether Gaetz engaged in ******* misconduct or illicit ***** use, as well as whether he accepted improper gifts, gave special favors to personal contacts or sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.

The committee had paused its probe in May 2023 at the request of the Department of Justice, which was conducting its own investigation into allegations that Gaetz ****-trafficked a minor girl.

The DOJ ended that probe without filing charges. The committee reauthorized its investigation in May 2023.

It was investigating Gaetz until he resigned from Congress last week, shortly after Trump tapped him to become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. His resignation removes him from the committee’s jurisdiction, Guest has said.

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