WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing to review several allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., including that he engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.

The bipartisan panel, which investigates ethics complaints, said in a lengthy statement it is also examining whether Gaetz “accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

The committee said it will take no further action regarding allegations that he “shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.”

Gaetz, a top Donald Trump ally on Capitol Hill, has denied all allegations of wrongdoing. In a post on X on Monday night, Gaetz pointed out that past Ethics investigations into him have resulted in “exoneration.”

“The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me. Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way: my exoneration,” wrote Gaetz, who led the successful effort last fall to overthrow then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and has become a target of retribution from McCarthy and his allies. 

 “This is Soviet. Kevin McCarthy showed them the man, and they are now trying to find the crime,” Gaetz continued. “I work for Northwest Floridians who won’t be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons know it.”

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