Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is asking for the censure and “fast removing” of Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from the Home Committee on Armed Companies and the Home Committee on Overseas Affairs, citing a “sequence of alarming moral, authorized, and private misconduct allegations.”
The South Carolina congresswoman despatched a letter to Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday, arguing that Mills’ home violence accusations, alleged “conflicts of curiosity,” and “misrepresentations” of navy service are purpose sufficient to kick him out of the committees.
Mace additionally introduced that she authored a decision to pressure a vote on the Home flooring to censure the Florida congressman, stating, “These allegations are far too severe to disregard.”
“A Member of Congress accused of assaulting ladies, profiting off federal contracts from his seat, and inflating or falsifying his service file has no enterprise anyplace close to national-security committees,” Mace stated in a press release. “This isn’t about partisan politics, it’s about defending the integrity of this establishment and the security of ladies.”
Each her letter to Johnson and her decision referenced the identical allegations in opposition to Mills, citing a February Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Division (MPD) report stating that his girlfriend accused him of grabbing, shoving, and pushing her out of the door of his residence.
“Officers noticed contemporary bruises on her arm,” Mace wrote. “The girl reportedly let officers hear Mills instruct her to lie concerning the origin of her bruises. Police decided possible trigger existed for misdemeanor assault and despatched an arrest warrant to the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Columbia.”
The alleged sufferer walked again her claims quickly after the incident, and the investigation was closed.
“Whereas the private matter in query was emotionally charged, there was no bodily altercation,” she instructed NBC Information.
Mills’ workplace additionally claimed innocence, saying in a press release that the congressman “vehemently denies any wrongdoing in anyway, and is assured any investigation will clear this matter rapidly.”
In July, a distinct former important different of Mills — Republican state committeewoman and Miss United States pageant winner Lindsey Langston — accused him of threatening to launch intimate photographs and movies of her and to hurt her future romantic companions. In October, a Florida courtroom granted her an order of safety in opposition to Mills.
The decide discovered that Langston “does have an affordable trigger to imagine that she is in imminent hazard of turning into the sufferer of one other act of courting violence with out an injunction being entered.”
Mills is separated however nonetheless legally married to his spouse, former Trump administration nationwide safety official Rana Al Saadi.
Mace’s decision additionally identified that the Workplace of Congressional Conduct (OCC) present in August 2024 that corporations owned by Mills “secured almost $1 million in federal contracts for munitions and weapons whereas he served in Congress, with 94 contracts awarded since January 2024.”
The OCC concluded that “There may be substantial purpose to imagine that Rep. Mills might have entered into, held, or loved contracts with federal businesses whereas he was a Member of Congress in violation of Home guidelines, requirements of conduct, and federal legislation.”
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