An lawyer for the lady granted a restraining order towards Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) stated she hopes he’s faraway from public workplace, and hinted that he may face future legal fees.
Bobi J. Frank represents Mills’s ex-girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committee member who was topped Miss United States 2024. Langston’s request for a protecting injunction from harassment from Mills was granted by a Florida county decide on Tuesday.
“I hope to see both parties come together and excuse Mr. Mills from public office. This is not a Republican or a Democrat issue,” Frank stated in a press convention from her regulation workplace on Wednesday, with Langston by her aspect.
“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. It’s clear as day that Cory Mills is synonymous with unethical behavior. This is not an isolated incident,” Frank stated.
Frank stated that Mills wore his congressional pin on his lapel whereas in court docket.
“I’m not certain how in politics today that can be tolerated in any fashion. I don’t think that the Republicans nationally, state and locally are going to tolerate this type of behavior,” she stated.
To this point, Republican leaders within the Home are displaying no real interest in disciplining Mills.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) known as Mills a “faithful colleague” in a Wednesday press convention marking the fifteenth day of the federal government shutdown, saying he had not appeared into the small print surrounding the state of affairs and that the Home Ethics Committee could check out the matter.
“Let’s just talk about the things that are really serious,” Johnson stated in response to a reporter’s query about Mills.
Langston accused Mills of threatening to launch intimate movies of her and threatening to hurt another males she could date. Mills stated the movies she was referring to weren’t intimate ones, however the court docket stated it discovered that testimony to be untruthful and irrelevant to the matter of whether or not a restraining order needs to be granted.
Their breakup got here after Langston noticed information studies in February 2025 that police had been investigating a bodily altercation between Mills and one other girlfriend in his Washington, D.C., residence, court docket data present. Each Mills — who’s married to a different girl — and the alleged sufferer later denied {that a} bodily altercation passed off. The police division transmitted a report back to the U.S. lawyer’s workplace, however Mills was not prosecuted and the matter is now not being investigated.
Requested about the opportunity of Mills going through legal fees in Florida, Frank stated: “There’s actually the proof there to pursue legal fees. I might suspect that this is not the final time you are going to hear about this.”
Along with in search of the protecting order, Langston sat for an interview with the Columbia County, Fla., sheriff’s workplace describing what she stated was harassment from Mills. That incident report was launched earlier this 12 months.
The county sheriff’s workplace forwarded the report back to state authorities on the Florida Division of Legislation Enforcement (FDLE). FDLE confirmed it had obtained the incident report from the county however stated it “does not comment on any active inquiries or investigations.”
Anthony Sabatini, one other Florida lawyer who informally labored with Langston and ran towards Mills in a 2022 congressional major, beforehand advised The Hill that Langston had sat for an interview with FDLE.
Mills is below investigation by the Home Ethics Committee for an unrelated matter relating to marketing campaign finance statements.
Frank stated she had not been contacted by the Ethics panel, however that she and Langston “are more than willing to cooperate.”
Two Democrats, Reps. Yvette Clarke (N.Y.) and Greg Casar (Texas), had launched resolutions to censure Mills — amounting to a proper reprimand — as a strategy to fight GOP-led censure resolutions towards Democratic Reps. LaMonica McIver (N.J.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.). However when these censures failed, Clark and Casar dropped their efforts to reprimand Mills.
Mills was the last-minute deciding vote that resulted within the decision to censure Omar failing, with solely 4 different Republicans voting with all Democrats to desk it. Mills denied his vote had something to do with the retaliatory censure menace.
Beneath the protecting order, Mills isn’t permitted to contact Langston or go inside 500 toes of her residence or administrative center till Jan. 1.
The Hill reached out to Mills for touch upon Tuesday.
Langston, in a quick assertion, stated she is relieved the order was granted.
“I do feel that justice was served, and 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,” Langston stated. “I felt like I’m able to live my life again. And I hope that it serves as a clear message to victims, whether it be physical violence, intimidation, threats, coercion, anything like that.”
“I don’t think it’s a gender-specific issue. I don’t think it’s a party-specific issue. It can happen to anyone. If you are a victim, I hope that you come forward,” Langston stated. “I hope that you stick to your guns, be thorough, be truthful and have faith in the justice system, because it is there to protect you. There are laws in place to protect you. Know your rights and have courage.”
Requested about the opportunity of extending that Jan. 1 expiration date, Frank stated: “I will say that if Mr. Mills chooses to take even one step — performs one act that is harassing, threatening or intimidating in any fashion — we will react swiftly and severely.”
