Matt Gaetz: Trump's pick for attorney general paid for sex with teenage girl, report finds Donald Trump's first pick for attorney general paid a 17-year-old girl and other women for sex and took drugs during his time as a Congressman, a report has claimed.
The House Ethics Committee report said it had found "substantial evidence" that the former Republican Representative for Florida Matt Gaetz violated state and federal laws as well as House rules, accusing him of breaching rules around prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, and obstruction of Congress.
The House committee said: "From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use.".
Mr Gaetz accused the committee of an "unconstitutional" attempt to "exercise jurisdiction over a private citizen through the threatened release of an investigative report containing potentially defamatory allegations, in violation of the committee's own rules.
The House reported added: "From at least 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
