The House Ethics Committee is going to release a report on Matt Gates.

I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal's top news in 10 for Wednesday, December 18.

It's almost Christmas, but that does not slow down the news or the drama in Washington, D.C.

Matt Gates was back in the headlines today.

News broke that the House Ethics Committee is going to release its report on Gates.

The committee began an investigation into Gates in the spring of 2021 over accusations

that Gates had been involved in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Gates has denied

these allegations. Gates was serving as a member of Congress up until when Trump tapped him

to serve as his attorney general. But after it became clear that Gates likely did not

have enough support in the Senate to be confirmed, he withdrew his nomination last month. But with Gates

in the spotlight recently, Democrats have called for the release of that investigation that was done

by the House Ethics Committee and have even tried for that report to be released, but Republicans

had blocked it. But now, word is out that the House Ethics Committee plans to release that

report in the coming days after all lawmakers have left Washington, D.C., and gone home for Christmas.

Gates sounded off about the release of that report on X. He wrote today, the Biden slash

Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes. I was charged with

nothing, fully exonerated, not even a campaign finance violation. And this is true. As the New York

Times reports, the Justice Department

chose not to prosecute Gates after investigators concluded they could not make a strong enough

case against him in court. Gates went on in the lengthy post on X to defend himself against some

of the allegations that have come up against him. He wrote, my 30s were an air of

working very hard and playing hard too. It's embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably

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