Senate Ethics panel dismisses misconduct complaint against Ruben Gallego - BERITAJA

WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed allegations of misconduct by Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., aft conducting an investigation.

In a letter obtained by Beritaja, the six committee members led by Chair James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chair Chris Coons, D-Del., said the sheet “did not find evidence” for the circumstantial allegations fixed to the committee by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican.

“We are penning to pass you that the Select Committee connected Ethics (the Committee) dismissed a title revenge against you by Representative Anna Paulina Luna,” the senators wrote successful a missive to Gallego.

The letter, dated June 26, was provided by a root acquainted pinch the investigation and has not antecedently been reported.

“Specifically, the title alleged run finance violations and inappropriate behaviour of a intersexual nature. In consequence to your petition for an investigation, the Committee referred these allegations to you and requested further accusation connected April 17 and May 15, 2026. 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 committee said it considered accusation successful the complaint, statements by individuals identified successful it and run and legislature agency expenditure reports.

The sheet besides “appreciated” Gallego’s “cooperation” passim the probe, the missive said, while adding that it “retains the authority to revisit this matter should further facts go known” to them.

Gallego has been engaging pinch the committee investigation and set up a ineligible defense fund past period to thief salary the fees.

His agency said Monday that he is maintaining the money for outstanding ineligible fees.

Luna voiced her allegations publically aft news reports alleging that Gallego’s friend, then-Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., sexually assaulted and harassed aggregate women. Swalwell, who resigned from Congress and apologized for “mistakes successful judgment,” has besides denied astatine slightest immoderate of the allegations he faced.

Gallego has denied knowledge of those instances and said he was “lied to.”

Amid the Swalwell fallout, Luna wrote connected X connected April 23: “I person now heard of 4 women who person had aggregate and uncomfortable/inappropriate advances/comments/touching, etc. from Senator Gallego. This is not made up and the Senate is being awfully quiet about it.”

Her complaints were referred to the Senate Ethics Committee.

Gallego responded Monday to the Ethics Committee letter.

“Today’s 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,” Gallego said successful a statement. “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. In the meantime, I will proceed fighting for Arizonans and holding Trump Republicans accountable for precocious costs and caller wars.”