Matt Gaetz ethics report made available to all committee members

The House Ethics Committee study connected Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz is now available to each 10 members of the bipartisan committee.

Previously, the report’s findings were lone made disposable to Republican committee president Michael Guest and his Democratic counterpart, Susan Wild, Politico reported Monday.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson recommended the probe not beryllium made nationalist since Gaetz resigned from Congress aft being nominated by President-elect Trump to go the nation’s adjacent main instrumentality enforcement officer. Guest told Politico he’d spoken to Johnson and the committee volition determine whether oregon not to stock its findings erstwhile it convenes Wednesday. He doesn’t expect Johnson’s sentiment “having an impact” connected his panel’s decision.

Republicans and Democrats connected the Senate Judiciary Committee privation entree to the House Committee’s findings arsenic they see confirming Gaetz’s appointment.

The Wall Street Journal reports a witnesser told the House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz person sex with a minor astatine a enactment successful 2017. Witnesses reportedly testified the teen was a paid enactment worker. Gaetz joined the House of Representatives astatine the commencement of that year. He was a subordinate of Congress erstwhile the alleged enactment occurred.

Former Gaetz wingman Joel Greenberg cooperrated successful a Justice Department probe of Gaetz that hasn’t resulted successful charges. He pleaded guilty to enactment trafficking and received an 11-year situation condemnation that began successful 2021.

Greenberg penned a missive successful 2021 confessing helium helped facilitate Gaetz’s intersexual encounters with a teen and different women, according to the Daily Beast. Gaetz, 42, has denied paying to person enactment with a minor.