House Ethics Committee announces sexual misconduct investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez
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Set us as preferred The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Democratic Rep.Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles for alleged sexual misconduct.The committee said it is investigating allegations that Gomez, 51, engaged in “inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer,” according to a statement released by the committee’s chair, Rep.
Michael Guest (R-Miss.), and ranking member Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord).The New York Post reported in April that Gomez, a married five-term congressman, was spotted in 2023 kissing a much younger staffer from another office.CNN reported that the House Ethics Committee later discovered other allegations of sexual misconduct by Gomez.Gomez acknowledged in a statement Monday that he made “personal mistakes outside my marriage,” but said that his “actions were consensual in nature and haven’t violated the law or House Ethics rules.”Guest and DeSaulnier said in their statement that the panel’s public acknowledgment of the investigation “does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.”Gomez said he is “confident that a full and impartial review of the facts will bear that out” and that he is “ready to cooperate with the Ethics Committee inquiry and provide it with whatever information it might need.”The committee can take a wide range of actions if it substantiates the allegations in an investigation, including recommending that a member be reprimanded, censured or removed, or referring the conduct to the U.S.
Department of Justice for criminal investigation.Gomez represents California’s 34th Congressional District, stretching from Koreatown to Eagle Rock.He faces an election challenge in November from Democrat Angela Gonzales-Torres, who has the backing of the progressive Justice Democrats.
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