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Trump ally Matt Gaetz says he faces federal investigation 'regarding sexual conduct'

Matt Gaetz, a prominent Republican in Congress and a close ally of Donald Trump, said on Tuesday he was 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 inquiry. 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”.

 

Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion sells for $51m with victims to receive money

Disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein’s Manhattan mansion has been sold to an unnamed buyer for $51m, which will directly benefit the restitution fund providing compensation for Epstein’s sexual abuse victims. The seven-floor mansion – once valued at $88m – was sold for considerably less after the 66-year-old was charged with sex trafficking in 2019, shortly before he was found dead in his cell in the Metropolitan correctional center in New York, where he had been awaiting trial. Epstein had pleaded not guilty to the federal charges stemming from an indictment accusing him of running a sex-trafficking ring of underage girls, some as young as 14.