New details are emerging in the ethics investigation into Florida Republican Matt Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee in an unusual public statement Tuesday confirmed it is reviewing several allegations against the congressman.
Rep. Matt Gaetz , R-Fla., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Department of Justice, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. FILE - Rep. Matt Gaetz , R-Fla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The House Ethics Committee in an unusual public statement Tuesday confirmed it is reviewing several allegations against the congressman.
“Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way: my exoneration,” Gaetz said on the social platform X.from office last fall. Seven Republicans joined him in deposing McCarthy, along with 208 Democrats.
“This is Soviet. Kevin McCarthy showed them the man, and they are now trying to find the crime,” Gaetz wrote on X. “I work for Northwest Floridians who won’t be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons know it.”its review of Gaetz in April 2021, deferred its work in response to a Justice Department request, and renewed its work in May of last year after the DOJ dropped its request that lawmaker hold off an investigating.
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