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{"id":6547,"date":"2025-02-25T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cory-mills-continues-to-refute-allegations-of-assault\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T01:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T01:51:40","slug":"cory-mills-continues-to-refute-allegations-of-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cory-mills-continues-to-refute-allegations-of-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Mills continues to refute allegations of assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Cory Mills continues to push back against allegations he assaulted a woman last week.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at the Capitol on Monday evening, Mills emphasized that both he and the alleged victim \u2014 who Blue Light News is declining to name as a possible target of domestic violence \u2014 denied that any assault took place.<\/p>\n<p>The woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/21\/congress\/cory-mills-police-assault-investigation-00205496\" target=\"_blank\"><u>initiated the call <\/u><\/a>to law enforcement, but said in a statement afterwards she did so in a state of being &#8220;severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived&#8221; and that there was, in fact, \u201cno physical altercation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth myself and the other individual said that what they\u2019re claiming took place never took place and that\u2019s been reported multiple times,\u201d Mills said Monday. \u201cThat\u2019s why the prosecutor, [when] MPD tried to even push it forward, denied prosecution or any follow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A report of the incident from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department said the Florida Republican had used some kind of force with hands or feet against the woman, who is not his wife, at a home in Southwest Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Mills was not charged. A spokesperson for MPD said Monday the department sent the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office a warrant for Mills\u2019 arrest, but that warrant was never signed. The MPD also said it was now investigating its own handling of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why MPD attempted to issue an arrest warrant, Mills said, \u201cThat\u2019s something for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills, 44, is a two-term House member who represents a central Florida district. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/cory-mills-rubio-florida-senate-00197684\" target=\"_blank\">suggested he might run<\/a> for the Senate in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cory Mills continues to push back against allegations he assaulted a woman last week. In an interview at the Capitol on Monday evening, Mills emphasized that both he and the alleged victim \u2014 who Blue Light News is declining to name as a possible target of domestic violence \u2014 denied that any assault took [&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-6547","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\/6547","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=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}