Senate Ethics Committee dismisses complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego - BERITAJA

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., walks retired of the Senate enclosure connected Oct. 1, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a title brought against Sen. Ruben Gallego involving allegations of run finance violations and imaginable intersexual misconduct.

The allegations against the Arizona Democrat were brought to the committee successful April by a chap personnel of Congress, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla. But successful a missive to Gallego dated June 26, the committee said it had uncovered nary wrongdoing.

"Based connected the investigation of the Committee, the Committee did not find grounds that your actions violated Federal law, Senate rules, aliases related standards of conduct," the sheet wrote.

The sheet besides said it appreciated Gallego's "full cooperation" passim the investigation.

Gallego welcomed the findings, saying successful a connection that the dismissal "reaffirms what I person said about these accusations from the beginning: they were right-wing conspiracies peddled by far-right activists for illustration Anna Paulina Luna, the White House, and their allies."

"I look guardant to an apology from Rep. Luna for weaponizing the morals process while refusing to analyse historical corruption that's making life harder for families," he continued.

Whispers about imaginable misconduct by Gallego began to move successful April pursuing the resignation of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. Swalwell stepped down successful consequence to a swell of intersexual battle and misconduct allegations. BERITAJA has not independently verified the allegations against Swalwell, but he has adamantly denied them.

Swalwell and Gallego were adjacent friends, and during Swalwell's short-lived 2020 statesmanlike campaign, it was Gallego who served arsenic run chair.

In the contiguous aftermath of Swalwell's resignation, Gallego denied knowledge of immoderate alleged history of intersexual misconduct, though he acknowledged to reporters that their adjacent relationship whitethorn person made it difficult for him to judge rumors about Swalwell and his behaviour toward women.

"My relationship pinch him, our family's relationship together pinch him, clouded my judgment, and I was incorrect — I deeply, profoundly regret that," Gallego said.

Within days of the resignation, a cryptic station connected societal media by Luna sparked speculation about Gallego.

"It's seems for illustration the Senate has its ain trash to return out. @LeaderJohnThune You request to look into the allegations against 1 of your Senators, it's very disturbing. My main will beryllium contacting your chief," she wrote.

The pursuing day, Luna confirmed to CBS News she was referring specifically to Gallego.

Despite the dismissal by the morals panel, Luna changeable backmost astatine Gallego connected Monday, penning connected societal media, "These are not conspiracy theories."

"The bully news about DC is everyone talks, and yet the reporters travel guardant pinch your texts," she said.

The allegations against Swalwell earlier this twelvemonth brought connected a caller reckoning successful Congress complete the behaviour of immoderate of its antheral members — immoderate 10 years aft the #MeToo activity reshaped the speech about intersexual assault. Shortly aft Swalwell resigned, truthful excessively did Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, who had antecedently admitted to an affair pinch a erstwhile staffer who later died by suicide.