{"id":21304,"date":"2026-04-14T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-hes-looking-into-ongoing-cory-mills-ethics-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:31:48","slug":"johnson-says-hes-looking-into-ongoing-cory-mills-ethics-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-hes-looking-into-ongoing-cory-mills-ethics-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says he&#8217;s \u2018looking into\u2019 ongoing Cory Mills ethics probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he would be \u201clooking into\u201d an ongoing House Ethics investigation into whether Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is guilty of assault and benefiting from federal contracts while in office.<\/p>\n<p>His comments to reporters come amid a broader reckoning in the House over alleged transgressions among members on both sides of the aisle, leading to announcements Monday that Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) would resign after being accused of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson said he was not sure about the current status of the Mills investigation, he was confident the House&#8217;s &#8220;consensus&#8221; would be to soon vote to oust another Florida lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, following findings by the House Ethics Committee that she committed myriad campaign finance infractions. <\/p>\n<p>The Ethics panel is due to meet next week to determine whether to recommend a formal punishment, which could be as severe as expulsion. If members ultimately suggest a lesser consequence, Republicans could still force a floor vote on an expulsion resolution, though Democrats could counter with a resolution to expel Mills at the same time. It&#8217;s not clear how Republican leadership will proceed.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries separately told reporters Tuesday that the Cherfilus-McCormick ethics probe \u201cis not yet complete\u201d and they will \u201csee what\u201d the panel recommends.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries also said conversations regarding Swalwell \u201cwill stay private.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Meredith Lee Hill contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he would be \u201clooking into\u201d an ongoing House Ethics investigation into whether Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is guilty of assault and benefiting from federal contracts while in office. His comments to reporters come amid a broader reckoning in the House over alleged transgressions among members on both sides of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}