Republican former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is facing a lawsuit accusing him and others of sexually trafficking and abusing two women from 2017 to 2019.
The lawsuit, filed anonymously by a pair of women in Florida federal court and docketed Thursday, alleges that Gaetz and coconspirators coordinated to pay for travel, sex and illicit drugs for the victims. The suit deepens a public fight over allegations of impropriety for Gaetz, once one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent allies in Congress.