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Matt Gaetz filed a suit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent the public release of a scathing report resulting from an investigation into allegations of his sexual and drug misconduct.
The former House Republican recently stepped down from congress after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as Attorney General. At the time the confidential ethics report was imminently due to be published but after his resignation the investigation was stopped.
Eventually, under public and party pressure, Gaetz relinquished his Trump nomination but during a secret vote late last week by the committee, however, determined that the report should be made public.
According to CBS congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane, Gaetz’s argued in his bid for a restraining order to block the report’s release that “media coverage would be immediate and widespread.”
CBS, it turns out, have already accessed a “final draft” of the Gaetz investigation report. On Monday the network reported on the findings that the former congressman “paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex” as well as “purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office.”
Gaetz has previously denied all allegations of misconduct and recently announced he will take up a role at the right-leaning network OAN.
