Merrick Garland's DOJ criticized for impeding Ethics Committee's Matt Gaetz investigation
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Merrick Garland's DOJ criticized for impeding Ethics Committee's Matt Gaetz investigation

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The House Ethics Committee revealed its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday — with its authors complaining that Merrick Garland's Department of Justice stopped it from carrying out a more through investigation. In its report, which alleged that Gaetz paid an underage girl for sex, among other claims, the Ethics Committee asserts: "The Committee was not able to speak with every woman who received payments from Representative Gaetz that were suspected of being part of illicit activity. "Due to the women’s reluctance to cooperate, as well as the delay caused by DOJ’s deferral request and subsequent refusal to provide meaningful cooperation, the Committee was unable to determine the full extent to which Representative Gaetz’s payments to women were compensation for engaging in sexual activity with him," the committee report continued. The committee said that the information they did have access to "provides substantial reason to believe that many of the payments in the chart were made in connection with sexual activity and/or illicit drug use."

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