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U.S. House Committee on Ethics Launches Investigation Into Allegations Against Matt Gaetz
April 9, 2021
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics confirmed Friday afternoon it will investigate sexual misconduct, drug and bribery allegations against Northwest Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
The following statement (pictured bottom) was released by the Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics:
“The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct. The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), has begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.
“The Committee notes that the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee. No other public comment will be made on this matter except in accordance with Committee rules.”
Gaetz has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
“Once again, the office will reiterate, these allegations are blatantly false and have not been validated by a single human willing to put their name behind them,” Gaetz said.
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39 Responses to “U.S. House Committee on Ethics Launches Investigation Into Allegations Against Matt Gaetz”
I hope he does, then they can charge him with brandishing a weapon, too.
Once upon a time, these matters could be settled in a duel of honor.
If I were Getz, I would tell my accusers to produce their evidence, or to raise their pistols.
Bewildered, my comment proves nothing of the sort.
For reference of consequences, see Dennis Hastert, Mark Foley, Pat Meehan, Jeff Hoover, Jeff Kruse, Jack Latvala, Wes Goodman, Mike Duvall, Larry Craig, Bob Packwood, et al… well, you get the picture.
All stepped down from their office as a result of their personal peccadilloes, so by all means keep pretending you are an ostrich.
Of course‘s comment proves without a doubt that most of these sexual/racist allegations against powerful people are politically motivated. The point I was trying to make was that NOTHING ever comes out of these investigations. „Of course,‘please by all means add Trump, Bill O’Reilly, any school principals and/or anyone you can think of to my previous list. Has anyone ever faced consequences, please enlighten me.
Exactly Mr. Jackson. When it is proven that someone was falsely accused. The accuser should be held to whatever the WORST punishment the victim would have had to face. Be it twenty years, life, or even death. Mandatory, no plea, no commuted sentence, no nothing. 100% punishment served. This would stop most of the false accusations. Not judging this instance, just saying.
Accusations such as this should not be taken lightly but we must remember, innocent until proven guilty. There needs to be a full and thorough investigation.
If it is found that these accusations are in fact true, then Mr. Gaetz should be punished to the full extent of the law. This is reprehensible of any person but as an elected official supposedly representing the people this is the worst. How can a person be expected to pass legislation that is to defend and protect when they are taking part in an industry that exploits the vulnerable?
If it turns out the claims are false, then the person or persons who made the false claims should suffer the same punishment as a person that committed the grime.
Too often false accusations are made to destroy a person’s career and or their life, and many times the accuser walks away unpunished. I personally feel when a person falsely accuses a person, they should be held accountable for their actions.
@Bewildered
Any reason you neglected to mention trump’s well-documented friendship with Epstein with the others?
Or the fact that the father of trump AG Barr hired epstein to teach and also wrote a very disturbing book?
You might want to scratch more than the surface.
I no longer care who slept with whom or who wore blackface 30 years ago at a Halloween party. That goes for representatives of both parties. Whenever either party wants to sideline a particular politician for awhile they come up with this BS. But amazingly nothing ever comes out of their endless investigations. Except for Epstein not one accused highroller ever paid a price for their actions. Be it the Clintons, Cuomo brothers, Prince Andrew – you name it. People are easy to forget snd move on to the next sensational garbage in a day or two
Very entertaining to watch all of the trump/gaetz fans twist themselves up in knots while they attempt to deflect from & excuse the actual transgressions of their “family values party” representatives.
How & why do republican “family values” voters rationalize their obviously terrible choices for representation?
TK and Jason-Thanks! Said much better(and ‘nicer’) than I could have said what I wanted say. So-DITTO!!
Gaetz is creepy
I guess it needs pointing out again that Hunter Biden does not hold any elected office, does not have a job in the White House, and doesn’t have anything to do with Matt Gaetz. We went from Jeff Miller to THIS?!?!
It’s time to stop looking at politics like an Alabama/Auburn rivalry where you’re always for your team because, by Gawd, daddy was an Auburn man and I’ll love ‘em no matter how bad they play. Right is right and wrong is wrong whether you have an “R” or “D” beside your name. If true, it’s time for Gaetz to resign no matter his party and it’s not a trade where someone else has to pay the price first. Stop falling for the manipulation. Call out and vote out any politician who puts selfish desires ahead of public service.
I think Gates an Coumo are being treated fairly by the media .Gates got him a good lawyer on the news this morning. he wont go to jail unless he done it . i trust the system when the one in trouble has money 99 percent of the time
EPSTEIN ISLAND! LOOK AT THE VISITORS LOGS AND FREQUENT FLYER LISTS! Proud of ‘our’ government representatives?
First, prior to the public lynching let’s first allow due process.
To excuse any illegal actions because someone else did this or that is the exact reason why so many problems (crimes and criminals) are swept under the rug and the swamp simply grows. The democrats can honestly be outraged when they ignore the allegations in their own party? The republicans hurl allegations also and yet won’t clean up their backyard? This is truly outrageous and at the risk of being viewed as partisan why isn’t Rep Gaetz afforded the same usage of the Congressional slush fund money that have been used for both parties over the years to silence allegations? That’s the way it’s supposed to be handled. No matter party affiliation it is disgraceful that politicians that are elected to make laws refuse to follow laws and ignore law breakers within their ‘hallowed’ halls—-ALLEGEDLY! Washington DC is so politically incestuous that it seems only crimes, and criminal activities are able to unite the parties to protect their own and continue making millions off the American Taxpayers.
A innocent man doesn’t have to run around trying to convince everyone he’s innocent. He’s running scared because he got caught. It’s not about politics so stop all the finger pointing. Its not a Republican or Democrat problem. It is however a criminal behavior problem.
We need to stop looking at politics like it’s an Auburn or Alabama college rivalry. Some things are just wrong no matter whose “team you’re on”. It makes anyone who defends a corrupt politician look like such a hypocrite and you lose your moral authority. It’s time to stop blindly following a party, any party, and stand up for what’s right. Don’t allow yourself to become weaker and lose your own freedom by succumbing to party distractions.
Finally, this is your representative NWFlorida, we can do better. Gaetz is a fraud, he is what is making America sick!
Another witch hunt by the socialist left. Meanwhile our country is being invaded, taxes to “corporations” are about to trickle down to all of us so that we pay double for everything. It’s okay though the socialist left will print more money to give us further devaluing the dollar globally. That is what they want, YOU to be dependent on the system, that is how socialism works. None of this is free hand outs. Also part of the process is disarming the population so they can’t rise up. So funny people thought Trump was so bad while Biden has done more damage in 3 months than any other president in history. Just think we have almost 4 more years of this to endure unless they get rid of the filibuster and push HR1 through. Then they’ll have every election rigged from now on, it will be a one party system, the socialist country of America.
All will have to answer for their actions on judgement day.
Northend resident how is paying for sex with children connected with Hunter Biden? Oh. Ya. It’s not. Cmon now, y’all Q folk are supposed to be clearing the country of gubmint pedos. You can start with Matt boy…..
@stumpknocker this investigation was started under YOUR president. This didn’t become public till a couple weeks ago. Hunter wasn’t paying for sex with teenagers. Weren’t y’all supposed to be chasing down all the gubmint pedophiles? Trump must think Gaetz has something on him. He will also throw Gaetz under the nearest bus when Matt ceases to be useful.
Can we maybe at least try to get the political labels correct? Democrats are neo-liberal corporatists, not socialist/communist/anarchist/fluffy white bunny. Saying something a lot doesn’t suddenly make belief in the “benevolent” supremacy of privatized corporations (read: Big Business) turn into belief that there is no self-justified power structure in existence and everyone’s basic needs (shelter and sustenance) should be provided by community cooperation.
Like, you wouldn’t call a horse a bird or a Pepsi a Coke, right?
I’m not saying he isn’t guilty but I am calling this as a distraction. Keep your eyes wide open and your head on a swivel. 90 percent of the people in positions of power are corrupt. Look who is in the wighthouse
An investigation started by the Trump administration happened to potentially catch Gaetz.
Chose your wingmen better else they become your co-defendant.
In 2017 the sole member of Congress to vote against the human sex trafficking bill was Gaetz. The house vote was 418-1. Wonder what he knew that not a single other congressman knew?
Congressman behaves badly and its the democrats fault? If you think Cuoma should be investigated and resign than you should want the same for Gaetz! There’s no democrat or republican in this. People get your head on straight!! Geez!
Gaetz is all over the major network “News” reports.
Meanwhile, slipping into the unspoken conversation is Child Abuse at the border, attempts to not just control but take away 2nd Amendment Rights as a Public Health need, Cuomo and the growing list of “Need to be Heard Women” he has offended, the Surge at the border, on and on and on….FOCUS and Truth are casualties of this new and socialist administration. My America is in dangerous peril….
H. Biden had many simular allegations against him and isn’t it amazing, after his dad’s win, it just went bye bye, but this one will be on the news 24/7 for the next 2 years!
Some of you don’t seen to realize that this investigation was started under the Trump Justice Dept, under AG Barr. Barr was aware of it. Was not brought up by Dems.
For those commenting that if this was a Democrat, blah, blah, blah, let look at this historically. In the times a sex scandal has come out with this much evidence, Democrats destroy our own and we do it quickly. i.e. John Edwards. There is a reason he lost his political platform and has never recovered it.
Al Franken’s sexist picture joke caused him to have too resign from the Senate, which I thought was a bad call, but it proves my example.
Republicans on the other hand deny, deny, deny when the evidence is blatant and proven with video or audio and witnesses so it isn’t surprising to see Gaetz supporters, like Trump supporters, rocking conspiracy theories rather than waiting for the results of an investigation.
If you are board or curious, do a Google search for “Republican sex scandals”. I double dare ya,lol.
Where’s Hunter lap top?
Read about the arrest of Joel Greenberg.
An innocent man doesn’t act like that.
He knows he’s going away for a long time and will rat out on matty.
There is also documents available to back up the charges.
I don’t like child molesters and I’ll be glad to see him go away.
Character assassination by the Marxists knows no end. The Leftists circle the wagons around their politicians and nothing ever warrants their removal from office, meanwhile the Republicans are like rats fleeing a sinking ship to get away from theirs….it’s despicable and anyone who can’t see through this charade from the Imperial City of DC are utterly and completely blind.
The dems took the heat off Cuomo and put it on Gaetz. Typical dems!
The democrats going after anyone that supports Trump.
If only he was a Democrat, it would be swept under the rug. Since he is a staunch Trump backer we will never hear the end of it, even if he is proven innocent.
… yet, when it comes to Eric Swalwell, crickets. That said, if Gaetz is guilty, he should be punished. If not, I hope whomever made the false allegations is punished.
There’s a reason why AG Barr didn’t want to be seen with him.
I think he’s going down.