The report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz was released and includes striking claims against him. Former aide to President George W. Bush Elise Jordan and former CEO of the DNC Jess O'Connell join ...

GOP primary vote on the horizon, 10 candidates are in the race to replace Matt Gaetz as Florida's District 1 congressman.

The ethics report that exposed some of the illicit behavior of Republican former congressman Matt Gaetz was released due to votes from two of his GOP colleagues. The sordid report revealed that ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid ...

After a multiyear investigation, the House Ethics Committee reported today that former Representative Matt Gaetz paid “tens of thousands of dollars” to various women, including one 17-year-old ...

Matt Gaetz, detailing allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and obstruction. Gaetz has denied wrongdoing. But the report says "[t]he Committee determined there is substantial evidence ...

A former Matt Gaetz pal who pleaded guilty to underage sex-trafficking charges once used an image of the pol in what appears to be a classroom as his pitch to “meet” a 20-year-old woman in ...

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Text messages included lines such as: “Btw Matt also mentioned he is going to be a bit generous.” The report says the record “overwhelmingly suggests” Mr. Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit Monday in an attempt to block the release of a House Ethics Committee report on his alleged behavior. In a complaint filed in federal district court ...