Representative Florida Matt Gaetz he conveniently resigned from Congress just two days before the House Ethics Committee planned to vote on releasing a report on his alleged misconduct. That report may have contained some damning testimony about the appropriate Republican lawmaker ABC Newsbut it is unclear if it will ever see the light of day, now the president-elect Donald Trump appointed Gaetz to serve as attorney general.

Since 2021, the House Ethics Committee has been investigating a full list of charges about Gaetz, including allegations that he used illegal drugs, had sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl, accepted improper gifts, and granted improper privileges and personal favors. Gaetz vehemently denied the allegations and described one of his main accusers, a former friend named Joel Greenburgas a “criminal liar.”

But the young woman at the center of the commission’s investigation also testified that she had sex with Gaetz when she was a junior in high school, ABC News reported Thursday. And the committee interviewed “at least a half-dozen women” who said they were paid to attend sex- and drug-fueled parties that Gaetz also attended. A woman he further testified to the committee that a Venmo payment she received from Gaetz was for sex. Notably, federal prosecutors also investigated allegations of underage sex as part of a separate investigation — and never brought charges. Gaetz may soon end up leading that department.

But before giving the green light to Gaetz’s nomination to lead the Justice Department, lawmakers from both parties they are picky The House Ethics Committee to publish its full report. There is some uncertainty about whether the panel will do so: its chairman, Rep Michael Guesta Republican from Mississippi, said his committee lost “jurisdiction” when Gaetz resigned from the House to accept Trump’s nomination for attorney general. But the timing of this resignation seemed suspicious to other lawmakers, including the senator Dick Durbinthe Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee tasked with overseeing the AG’s confirmation. “The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the content of the House Ethics Committee’s report,” Durbin said in a statement. “We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be withheld.” Senator John Cornyna Texas Republican, suggested to the Senate Judiciary Committee could quote the report if the House refuses to share it.

Some Republican lawmakers did as well he is supposed to have speculated that Trump nominated Gaetz only to spoil the release of the report. It wouldn’t be the first time the now-former congressman has turned to Trump for help with his legal dealings: In the final weeks of Trump’s first term, he would also have asked an unusual, preemptive pardon to protect him from future sex-trafficking charges.