Senate Ethics Committee Dismisses Complaint Against Gallego

The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Senator Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, after an investigation found no evidence to support allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations. The committee's decision, communicated in a letter dated June 26, was made public on Monday, June 29.

The complaint was filed in April by Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican. In a letter to Gallego, the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Ethics stated it "did not find evidence that your actions violated Federal law, Senate Rules, or related standards of conduct." The panel, led by Chairman James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said it reviewed the complaint, statements from individuals, Federal Election Commission reports, and congressional expenditure records.

The allegations emerged publicly in the wake of a scandal involving former Representative Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat and close friend of Gallego, who resigned from Congress following accusations of sexual assault and harassment, which he has denied. On April 23, Luna posted on social media that she had "heard...