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Rep. Kevin McCarthy suggested Tuesday that the successful effort to oust him from his House speakership last year started with one man — whom McCarthy did not explicitly name.
“I’ll give you the truth why I’m not speaker,” McCarthy told the audience. “It’s because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old. An ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker ... Did he do it or not? I don’t know.”:"I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old ...
as he serves an 11-year prison sentence for a range of charges, including sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl. Greenberg says he witnessed Gaetz’s alleged underage sexual encounter.reportedly showed the men paying the girls: In 2018, Gaetz allegedly used Venmo to send $900 to Greenberg, who then used the app to send varying amounts totaling $900 to three young women.
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