The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
December 24, 2024

House Ethics Report Finds Matt Gaetz Spent Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Sex and Drugs
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The House Ethics Committee released its investigation Monday into former
Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, whom Trump had picked to be his
attorney general before the Florida politician withdrew from
consideration. The report found Gaetz had paid tens of thousands of
dollars for sex and drugs while in office. The report also found Gaetz
had broken Florida's statutory rape law by paying a 17-year-old high
school student for sex in 2017. The report was released Monday despite a
last-ditch effort by Gaetz to block its release. We will have more on
this story later in the show


.