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Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) on Thursday was hit with yet another report alleging reckless behavior, including hiring numerous sex workers.

The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that it had opened an investigation into Rep. Mills over several issues, according to a new report. The following day, investigative political reporter Roger Sollenberger dropped a report of his own.

In a piece on Substack called "Sex Workers & A Secret Charity: The Story Of Cory Mills’s ‘F------ Bananas’ Afghanistan Mission," he reports, "The embattled Florida Republican’s political origin story is shrouded in its own scandal."

According to the report, Mills leans into his Afghanistan mission as a sort of "origin story." But there's more of that tale to be told, according to the veteran reporter.

"But people familiar with the Afghanistan mission say Mills has never told the full story—and that if he did, the public would have a very different image of him. For one thing, three sources said Mills hired sex workers during the Afghanistan operation, on several occasions," he wrote on Thursday. "The revelations come as Mills finds himself increasingly isolated politically, with a battery of scandals—domestic assault allegations, his military record, and most recently a restraining order for cyberstalking and revenge porn—sparking public rebuke from MAGAfied Republican colleagues."

Sollenberger goes on to report that the mission itself succeeded despite the lawmaker.

"While Mills often casts himself as key to the Afghanistan rescue—including in congressional remarks—three people familiar with the effort said the operation’s success was more in spite of Mills’s involvement than because of it," the report states.

He continues:

"The team planned to land in Afghanistan, but they were re-routed to Tbilisi, Georgia, where they staged the operation from a hotel and waited for the go signal. In Tbilisi, however, Mills set the team on edge with what three people familiar with the events described as reckless and unprofessional personal behavior. This included hiring sex workers with his friend more than once, even after they were told to stop."

“It was every night,” one source said, according to the report. Another person purportedly said, “That happened three nights in a row to the point where I said, ‘I’m done, I don’t want to associate with it.'"

According to Sollenberger, "I obtained a photo of Mills with one of the sex workers, which a person with knowledge of the events confirmed as authentic."

Read the full piece here.

An attorney for Lindsey Langston, the former girlfriend of Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), called for the lawmaker to be expelled from Congress after he was hit with a restraining order under Florida's "dating violence" law.

At a press conference on Wednesday, attorney Bobi Frank said her client hoped Mills would be removed from Congress.

"I hope to see both parties come together and excuse Mr. Mills from public office," Frank remarked. "This is not a Republican or a Democrat issue."

"Quite frankly, I think Mr. Mills needs to stop aligning himself and each of his public statements with our president, President Trump, and trying to persuade the masses that this is just a political hit campaign on him," she added. "It's clear as day that Cory Mills is synonymous with unethical behavior. This is not an isolated incident."

Langston, the current Miss United States and a Republican committeewoman, expressed relief at the press conference.

"I can't even describe the relief that I felt once I got the phone call that I had been issued the injunction for protection," she said. "I feel like I'm able to live my life again."

Langston said she had feared Mills would release videos of the two having sex to tarnish her reputation. Mills argued that the videos had been destroyed. In granting the restraining order on Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Fred Koberlein noted that he did "not find [Mills's] testimony concerning the intimate videos to be truthful."

Koberlein found that Mills' campaign of harassment against Langston included inducing one of his congressional staffers to contact her. Mills also caused another one of his girlfriends to contact Langston, the judge said.

According to the restraining order, Mills admitted to Langston for the first time under oath in a court hearing that he had still been married during their relationship.

During their breakup, Langston became involved with someone she met at Mar-a-Lago, Mills claimed to the court.

At a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was told by a reporter that Mills was accused of "beating a girlfriend."

"I mean, he's been a faithful colleague here," Johnson replied. "You have to ask him about that. Let's talk about the things that are really serious."