WASHINGTON – Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative in Congress and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he is being investigated by the Justice Department over a former relationship but denied any criminal wrongdoing.
Gaetz, who represents parts of western Florida, told Axios that his lawyers were informed that he was the subject of an investigation “regarding sexual conduct with women” but that he was not a target of the probe.
He denied that he ever had a relationship with any underage girls and said the allegations against him were “as searing as they are false.” A subject is conventionally thought of as someone whose actions fall within the scope of a criminal investigation, whereas a target is