Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked FBI Director Christopher Wray in a Wednesday letter to provide investigative files into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as part of their review of Gaetz for a key role in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
Gaetz was nominated on Nov. 13 by Trump to serve as attorney general, a position that requires Senate confirmation. The president-elect said in the announcement that Gaetz is a “deeply gifted and tenacious attorney” who would carry out needed reforms at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In response to the nomination, Democrats and other critics pointed to a House Ethics Committee probe into the former Congressman over allegations of misconduct, as well as to a prior FBI investigation into allegations of sex trafficking an underage girl….