The Matt Gaetz Report Is Dead... For Now
The House Ethics Committee did not agree Wednesday whether to release its report on former Representative Matt Gaetz.Committee Chairman Representative Michael Guest said that they had not decided to release the report, according to NOTUS’s Reese Gorman.“Guest would not say whether or not the committee took a vote on releasing the report just that there was not an agreement by the committee on whether or not to release it,” Gorman posted on X. The committee was set to vote on whether they would release a report on its yearslong investigation into Gaetz over alleged sexual misconduct, including alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, among a slew of other potential violations. The meeting adjourned Wednesday afternoon, but it was not immediately clear that they had moved to do anything at all. Illinois Democrat Sean Casten pledged earlier Wednesday that if the House Ethics committee failed to vote for the release of the report, he would force a vote on the House floor, according to Politico. “The allegations against Matt Gaetz are serious. They are credible. The House Ethics Committee has spent years conducting a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it,” Casten said in a statement. “This information must be made available for the Senate to provide its constitutionally required advice and consent.”Over the course of the last week, a slew of new information about the committee investigation had already come out. Two women testified before the committee alleging that Gaetz had paid them for sex, and one testified that he’d also had sex with her underage friend. ABC reported Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee reportedly holds records of Gaetz paying those two women more than $10,000 between July 2017 and January 2019. This is a developing story.
The House Ethics Committee did not agree Wednesday whether to release its report on former Representative Matt Gaetz.
Committee Chairman Representative Michael Guest said that they had not decided to release the report, according to NOTUS’s Reese Gorman.
“Guest would not say whether or not the committee took a vote on releasing the report just that there was not an agreement by the committee on whether or not to release it,” Gorman posted on X.
The committee was set to vote on whether they would release a report on its yearslong investigation into Gaetz over alleged sexual misconduct, including alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, among a slew of other potential violations. The meeting adjourned Wednesday afternoon, but it was not immediately clear that they had moved to do anything at all.
Illinois Democrat Sean Casten pledged earlier Wednesday that if the House Ethics committee failed to vote for the release of the report, he would force a vote on the House floor, according to Politico.
“The allegations against Matt Gaetz are serious. They are credible. The House Ethics Committee has spent years conducting a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it,” Casten said in a statement. “This information must be made available for the Senate to provide its constitutionally required advice and consent.”
Over the course of the last week, a slew of new information about the committee investigation had already come out. Two women testified before the committee alleging that Gaetz had paid them for sex, and one testified that he’d also had sex with her underage friend. ABC reported Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee reportedly holds records of Gaetz paying those two women more than $10,000 between July 2017 and January 2019.
This is a developing story.
