Probe finds Trump ally paid for underage sex

(FILES) US Representative Matt Gaetz speaks during a bipartisan press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 30, 2023, to discuss the lack of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) transparency in the United States. Matt Gaetz, the former US lawmaker who was Donald Trump's first pick to run the Justice Department paid for sex numerous times, including with an underage girl, according to a congressional report due for release later December 23, 2024. [AFP]

A former US lawmaker who was Donald Trump's first pick to run the Justice Department regularly paid for lurid sex sessions at drug-fueled parties, including with a 17-year-old school girl, according to a scathing congressional report released Monday.

Matt Gaetz also regularly used cocaine and ecstasy, and bought marijuana from his Capitol Hill office, said the 37-page document, the culmination of a long-running probe by the House Ethics Committee.