Rep. Yvette Clark (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) over allegations of harassment, assault and stolen valor, invoking a procedure to force a vote on the matter on the House floor.
Mills has denied all the accusations.
Clark, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, brought the resolution forward as the House prepared to vote on a GOP-sponsored resolution to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), another member of the Black Caucus, who faces charges resulting from a clash with officials at an immigrant detention center.
A censure amounts to a formal reprimand by the House, but Clark’s resolution would not impose any other punishment on Mills. The House will have to consider the matter within two legislative days, since Clark noticed it as a privileged matter.
Clark’s resolution first details an incident in which a woman, originally identified as a significant other to Mills, had called police to a luxury building in the Wharf neighborhood of D.C. over a domestic disturbance in February.
The woman later recanted her allegations, and Mills firmly denied there was a physical altercation. Police didn’t make an arrest at the scene.
News4 reported that there were three versions of the police report about the incident. News4 also reported that an arrest warrant was sent to the U.S. attorney’s office — then led by interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, a Trump appointee — but was not signed and was sent back to the department for further investigation. The current U.S. attorney is Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host.
The Metropolitan Police Department previously said in a statement it had “conducted an investigation and presented the case to the United States Attorney’s Office,” and according to an email shared with The Hill, an officer told Mills’ legal counsel that an investigation into the incident is closed.
The censure resolution then delves into separate allegations that he had harassed and threatened to release intimate images of a woman he dated in Florida, which the married congressman has also denied. Florida Republican state committee member and Miss United States 2024 Lindsey Langston told police that after she ended their romantic relationship, Mills threatened to release nude images and videos of her and threatened to harm other men she dated in the future. Her request for a restraining order is pending, and the allegations have been shared with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Clark’s resolution also notes that the House Ethics Committee is investigating Mills over allegations he omitted or misrepresented information in his financial disclosures and accessed excessive contributions to his campaign committee.
And finally, Clark’s resolution detailed allegations from other servicemembers reported in the Daytona Beach News-Journal questioning how and why he was awarded a Bronze Star, with two service members “disputing that Mills was involved in their rescue or provided live-saving care.”
Mills’s office did not immediately comment on the censure resolution.
