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Matt Gaetz, accused of participating in up to 10 drug-fueled orgies
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Matt Gaetz, accused of participating in up to 10 drug-fueled orgies

A lawyer representing two women who claim they attended up to ten “sex parties”. Matt Gaetz will launch in a media blitz on Monday, revealing new details about wrongdoing against the former Florida congressman and future attorney general.

Joel Sheppard said Political that “ultimately, I hope it will put a lot of pressure on (the House Ethics Committee) to release the report,” with the body’s long-running investigation into various sordid claims against Gaetz now closed after his resignation in Congress last week after news of his nomination broke.

“My clients have already been through this multiple times and they really don’t want to testify again,” Sheppard said. “Especially not on the floor Senate,” he added, referring to the upcoming vetting process Gaetz may go through before being confirmed as the nation’s top prosecutor.

Sheppard’s clients have already told the committee they attended between five and 10 “sex parties” with Gaetz between mid-2018 and late 2018, when he was serving his first term in Congress.

They further described the gatherings as “group sex situations” where illegal drugs were consumed and where one of Leppard’s clients claims to have seen Gaetz having sex with an underage friend at a gaming table.

Gaetz is not the only recent nominee Donald TrumpThe government that faced such accusations Fox News pylon Pete Hegseth accused of paying off a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her in October 2017.

Both men have strongly denied the claims made against them. A spokesman for Gaetz also told Politico, “Merrick Garland’s DoJ cleared Matt Gaetz and did not indict him. Are you claiming Garland is part of a cover up?

The Department of Justice the Gaetz investigation centered on allegations, first made in 2020, that Gaetz engaged in child sex trafficking and statutory rape by paying a 17-year-old girl to travel across the country to have sex with her .

While prosecutors ultimately declined to pursue charges against the former Florida congressman, the claims prompted an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into similar allegations of sexual abuse of minors as well as drug use, illicit financial practices and, most notoriously, sharing sexually explicit images on the House floor.