An attorney representing two women who testified in the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of former Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling for the release of the committee’s report, telling ABC News that one of her clients testified that she witnessed the Florida congressman having sex with her. a minor.

“My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that he witnessed Matt Gaetz having sex with a minor,” Florida attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News.

“As the Senate considers former Rep. Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general, some questions need to be answered,” Leppard said. “What happens if multiple credible witnesses have provided evidence of conduct that would constitute serious criminal violations?”

“Democracy requires transparency. Release the Gaetz Ethics report,” said Leppard, who represents two women who testified behind closed doors at the committee over the summer.

Gaetz, who President-elect Donald Trump picked this week to serve as attorney general, has long denied any wrongdoing, including having an inappropriate relationship with a minor. The Justice Department declined to charge Gaetz last year after a years-long investigation into the allegations.

Gaetz did not respond to ABC News’ request for comment on Leppard’s allegations.

Two witnesses, whose names ABC News is not naming, both allegedly attended parties with the congressman. Joel Greenberg, Gaetz’s onetime friend, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence after a deal with prosecutors in May 2021; In that deal, he pleaded guilty to numerous federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor and introducing her to others. “Adult men” who had sex with her when she was underage.

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According to Greenberg’s plea agreement, the woman, who ABC News did not identify, met Greenberg online in 2017 and began meeting him at hotels and homes in the Central District of Florida, where she “introduced Minor to other adult men,” court documents said. “Commercial Sex Acts with a Minor in the Central District of Florida,” it stated.

The then-minor “was representing that he was an adult” on the website where he met Greenberg, and according to his plea agreement, he admits that he “acted with reckless disregard for the fact that the minor was under 18 years of age” and underage when he engaged in commercial sex acts. He had “a reasonable opportunity to observe” that it was not.

Leppard’s statement came after John Clune, the lawyer representing the former boy at the center of the investigation, called for the Ethics Committee report to be released on Thursday.

“The nomination of Mr. Gaetz as Attorney General is a reversal in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing its report. He was a high school student and there were witnesses,” Clune said in a statement. he said. .

The woman, now in her 20s, testified to the House Ethics Committee that the former Florida congressman had sex with her while she was in Congress when she was 17, ABC News previously reported.

In a statement responding to this news, Gaetz said, “These allegations are fabricated and would constitute perjury to Congress. This false slander, which follows a three-year criminal investigation, should be viewed with great suspicion.”

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The Justice Department spent years investigating allegations against Gaetz, including allegations of obstruction of justice, before notifying him last year that it would not pursue criminal charges.

Gaetz has long vehemently denied any wrongdoing regarding the Justice Department investigation. In September, he published a detailed response to questions sent to him by the House Ethics Committee, which is investigating allegations of sexual abuse and illegal drug use.

“Your September 4 correspondence asks whether I have ever engaged in sexual activity with anyone under the age of 18. The answer to that question is absolutely NO. You can apply this answer to any version of this question, to any forum,” Gaetz said. he said. He published his statement on his social media account.

Gaetz resigned from his post this week after being selected to lead Trump’s Justice Department; This ended the House Ethics Committee’s investigation, which sources said was entering the final stages of ABC News. Before Gaetz’s resignation, the committee had planned to meet this week to discuss whether its report on the investigation would be released; This leaves it unclear whether the report will ever see the light of day.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that he does not think the House Ethics Committee should release the findings of its investigation into Gaetz because the Florida Republican is no longer a member of Congress.

I believe it is very important to continue the House’s tradition of no longer issuing ethics reports on individuals who are not members of Congress. “I think this will open Pandora’s box,” he said.

Leppard told ABC News he supported the release of the report.

“What if the affidavit details conduct that would disqualify anyone from serving as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer?” the attorney said in a statement to ABC News.