A court docket on Thursday declined to concern an instantaneous restraining order in opposition to Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a lady who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their break-up, based on a court docket doc reviewed by The Hill, however ordered each Mills and the lady to look at a listening to later within the month to think about the matter additional.
Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committee official who was topped Miss United States 2024, filed the petition for an injunction earlier this week, based on lawyer Anthony Sabatini who has consulted along with her.
She individually instructed legislation enforcement final month that Mills had threatened to launch specific images and movies of her, based on a sheriff’s nation incident report revealed on Wednesday.
Sabatini instructed The Hill that Langston has spoken not solely to the Columbia County, Fla., Sheriff’s Workplace as detailed within the incident report, however that she additionally sat for an interview with the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement. FDLE confirmed it had obtained the incident report from the county however stated it “doesn’t touch upon any energetic inquiries or investigations.”
Mills has stated that these claims “are false and misrepresent the nature of my interactions,” and in a Thursday assertion in regards to the court docket choice stated the “accusations are baseless.”
“As a general rule, when you’re able to prepare an ex parte injunction— a one-sided attack— you’re going to lead with your absolute best evidence. In this case, the judge fully rejected the accusations and found them insufficient to support any of the allegations,” Mills stated in an announcement Thursday.
The circuit court docket of the third judicial district in Columbia County, Fla., declined to grant the emergency petition for a no-contact order — a call, Sabatini stated in a publish on social media, made as a result of Mills had stopped allegedly harassing Langston final month.
The court docket did, nonetheless, order Mills and Langston to look at one other listening to to think about the injunction request. Sabatini stated the listening to date is Aug. 21.
“The Court finds that based upon the facts, as stated in the Petition alone and without a hearing on the matter, there is no appearance of an immediate and present danger of domestic violence; repeat, dating or sexual violence, or stalking, or that stalking exists. Therefore, there is not a sufficient factual basis upon which the court can enter a Temporary Injunction for Protection Against Domestic, Repeat, Dating, or Sexual Violence, or Stalking, prior to a hearing,” stated the court docket doc on the restraining order petition shared with The Hill.
Langston has not commented on the matter since her allegations, first reported by Drop Website Information and Blaze Information, had been made public this week, and has not returned The Hill’s requests for remark.
Langston, 25, instructed police that she ended her relationship with Mills, 45, following experiences that police had been investigating a bodily altercation between Mills and one other girl in his Washington, D.C. residence (which each Mills and the alleged sufferer later denied).
After the break-up, “Cory has contacted Lindsey numerous times on numerous different accounts threatening to release nude images and videos of her, to include recorded videos of her and Cory engaging in sexual acts,” the incident report stated.
Mills has taken goal at Langston consulting with Sabatini, a former Florida state consultant who ran within the Republican major in opposition to Mills for his congressional seat in 2022. Sabatini has known as for Mills to resign within the wake of the allegations.
“Once again, Anthony Sabatini, who was my primary opponent in 2022, should be fighting at the ballot box— which he lost to me— but instead, he appears more interested in weaponizing his judicial system against a former political opponent,” Mills stated as a part of a prolonged assertion on the court docket order.
“It is tragic the way he continues to use people to serve his political agenda of attacking me. And once again, he has turned up empty-handed, with nothing more than fake news in his latest round of baseless attacks.”
Mills in contrast his scenario to President Trump being “relentlessly targeted by political opponents with baseless accusations,” including that Sabatini was “borrowing tactics from the radical left’s playbook.” Mills additionally in contrast Sabatini to the convicted fraudster Michael Avenatti, the previous lawyer for the grownup movie star Stormy Daniels who was on the middle of a hush cash scandal with Trump.
“While the accusations are baseless, I sincerely hope he is not using his client as a sacrifice at the altar for his own political ambitions,” Mills stated. “Breakups happen, but it’s truly tragic when a washed‑up politician drags someone else into his vendetta. I wish Ms. Langston well and genuine happiness.”
