House Ethics Committee just reopened investigation into Matt Gaetz

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1. Original source:

PunchBowl News. (Friday Morning Newsletter)

https://punchbowl.news/newsletter/

News: House Ethics Committee quietly restarts Gaetz probe


The House Ethics Committee has restarted an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the latest legal problem for the controversial Florida Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The secretive panel hasn’t decided yet whether to move ahead with a special investigative subcommittee. That would require a vote by the Ethics Committee members and would be publicly disclosed.

But committee investigators have begun looking into the allegations surrounding the fourth-term lawmaker, we’re told.

The Justice Department told Gaetz’s lawyers earlier this year that he wouldn’t be charged in a federal sex trafficking investigation involving underage girls. Gaetz long denied any wrongdoing, including when his friend and political ally Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty as part of the federal probe. Greenberg was later sentenced to 11 years in prison.

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People Mag picked up the report from PunchBowl as well.

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