Gaetz Paid for Sex, Used Drugs While in Congress, Panel Finds

House investigators found “substantial evidence” former Representative Matt Gaetz paid several women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex and bought and used illegal drugs while in Congress, according to a bipartisan committee report released Monday.

Gaetz, who President-elect Donald Trump initially nominated to be his attorney general, had asked a court to prevent the report’s release, but his paperwork was filed incorrectly.

The committee wrote there was ample evidence “that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”

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