Christopher Tomlinson, Lawfare Politics
EXC: Key Figure in Gaetz Ethics Report Blasts ‘Haphazard,’ ‘Sloppy’ Committee, Demands Retractions.
A Florida businessman who is a key figure in the sex and drug allegations against former Congressman Matt Gaetz has called the House Ethics Committee’sbiased investigation report “reckless,” demanding the retraction of multiple “demonstrably false statements,” The National Pulse can reveal.
Lawyers representing Christopher Dorworth note that former Congressman Gaetz is not even under the Committee’s jurisdiction before explaining in a letter sent just hours after the committee’sreport was leaked to the corporate media that it contains at least three falsehoods.
The first involves an allegation that Gaetz invited people to Dorworth’s home on July 15, 2017. Dorworth states that Gaetz did not invite anyone to his home and that theCommittee’s evidence that he did is “a gate log that doesn’t include Gaetz’s name on it”and references to “an affidavit and deposition transcripts that say nothing about Gaetz inviting anyone to [Dorworth’s] home.
”Another claim is that Dorworth was confronted with cell phone records during his deposition, but Dorthworth denies this occurred. The records, lawyers claim, were deemed “Attorneys eyes only” and were not reviewed by Dorworth or experts.
Finally, Dorworth’s lawyers note that the Committee claims it “requested, through counsel, that Mr. Dorworth clarify his testimony regarding his whereabouts on the evening of July 15, 2017; his counsel did not respond.”
They say they did, in fact, send an email to Committee staff that included exculpatory documentssupporting both Dorworth and Gaetz’s public statements regarding the accusations.
The letter concludes by noting disappointment, but not surprise, at“the haphazard and careless manner in which [the Committee’s] was drafted and now published,” branding it “sloppy.”
The report on the Committee investigation into Gaetz was leaked to the media over the weekend, with several outlets publishing claims that Gaetz paid for sex from women and purchased illegal drugs. Gaetz denies the allegations and notes that the Biden-Harris Justice Department (DOJ) declined to charge him with anything.
On Monday, December 23, Gaetz filed a lawsuit against the Committee to prevent the publication of the report, arguing that the Committee not only does not have jurisdiction over him but that he would suffer reputational and professional damage from the report.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
(This is not going to end well, for the “so called Ethics Committee”, they defiled every possible way of Ethics in the House. They will never be trusted with any private matter, and I wouldn’t be surprised, if all of them are personally sued and then their own violations come out.They not only wanted him to be banned forever in the government, it appears they wanted to destroy his entire life and future. They released the tiger!)
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/12/23/exc-key-figure-in-gaetz-ethics-report-blasts-haphazard-sloppy-committee-demands-retractions/
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