{"id":777739,"date":"2026-07-22T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:32:08","slug":"doj-investigating-rep-cory-mills-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777739\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ investigating Rep. Cory Mills: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The Justice Department is investigating embattled Republican Florida Rep. Cory\u00a0Mills, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation is in part about his finances, according to sources.\u00a0Mills&#8217; office did not respond to ABC News&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MS NOW first reported the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further details about the investigation were not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mills was elected to the House to represent Florida&#8217;s 7th District in 2022 and reelected in 2024. He serves on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Last November, the House Ethics Committee v<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/doj-investigating-rep-cory-mills-sources\/story?id=134965600\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oted to establish an investigative subcommittee<\/a> to examine allegations that Mills violated campaign finance laws and engaged in sexual misconduct and dating violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Regarding allegations of sexual misconduct, Mills issued a statement last year, before the ethics committee probe was lauched, stating in part: &#8220;These claims are false and misrepresent the nature of my interactions,&#8221; and he accused a former Florida primary opponent of &#8220;weaponizing the legal system to launch a political attack against the man who beat him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department is investigating embattled Republican Florida Rep. Cory\u00a0Mills, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[331124,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-777739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-331124","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}