Overview
- Multiple outlets report that people familiar with the matter say the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe into Rep. Cory Mills that reportedly focuses on financial and overseas business matters.
- Mills publicly denies he has been contacted by the DOJ or FBI and calls the reports a politically motivated 'op' aimed at his re‑election bid.
- The bipartisan House Ethics Committee has a separate, active inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, dating violence and campaign finance violations, and it has issued subpoenas in that review.
- Mills has faced prior complaints that include a 2025 police report alleging a physical altercation and a sheriff’s report alleging threats to publish explicit images, and his longtime chief of staff and counsel resigned this month.
- If prosecutors file criminal charges, Ethics investigators typically suspend parts of their work, a development that could materially affect Mills’s standing in the August primary and his ability to campaign.