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(NewsNation) — A long-awaited ethics study into erstwhile U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz volition beryllium released earlier Christmas, sources person confirmed to NewsNation.
A House committee considering the report’s merchandise has not announced a timeline for erstwhile the study volition beryllium released. However, sources told NewsNation that the committee has already voted to merchandise the study successful the adjacent week.
In response, Gaetz wrote connected X, "My 30’s were an epoch of moving precise hard - and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I astir apt partied, womanized, drank and smoked much than I should person earlier successful life. I unrecorded a antithetic beingness now."
Most Republicans person argued that immoderate legislature probe into Gaetz ended erstwhile helium resigned from the House. Speaker Mike Johnson besides requested that the committee not people its report, saying it would beryllium a unspeakable precedent to set.
While morals reports person antecedently been released aft a member’s resignation, it is highly rare.
Shortly earlier the votes took place, Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., who introduced 1 of the bills to unit the release, said that if Republicans cull the release, they volition person “succeeded successful sweeping credible allegations of intersexual misconduct nether the rug.” Gaetz has repeatedly denied the claims.
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The Associated Press contributed to this study
