In its report, the House Ethics Committee says it found “substantial evidence” that:
- From at least 2017 to 2020, Gaetz “regularly” paid women for sexual activity, and engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in this period
- He used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions between 2017 and 2019
- He accepted gifts in excess of permissible amounts in connection to a 2018 Bahamas trip
- He arranged for his chief of staff to help a woman he was involved with sexually to obtain a passport, falsely indicating to the US Department of State that she was a constituent
- He “knowingly and wilfully sought to impede and obstruct” the committee’s investigation and acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House
Gaetz has repeatedly denied all allegations against him and rejected the report’s findings earlier today Orignal source.