The Department of Justice is actively investigating Rep. Cory Mills, the Florida Republican already facing a House Ethics Committee probe and a fellow GOP member's push to expel him, a convergence of legal and institutional pressure rare for a sitting congressman.
Fox News reported that Mills is under an active DOJ criminal investigation, citing a source familiar with the matter. The specifics of the federal probe remain unknown. Mills has not been charged with any crimes, and the DOJ has not publicly commented on the investigation.
The federal probe lands on top of a separate House Ethics Committee investigation that began in November 2025, and an expulsion resolution filed in April by Rep. Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican. Together, the three tracks represent a level of institutional scrutiny that few members of Congress face simultaneously, and they arrive as Mills seeks a third House term this November.
When Newsmax contacted Mills about the DOJ investigation, the congressman said he was caught off guard.
"I know nothing about it."
In a follow-up phone call, Mills repeated the point: "This is the first I'm hearing about it." He has denied any wrongdoing throughout the overlapping investigations.
Newsmax also reported that at least one person has been contacted by the FBI regarding Mills's finances, alleged misconduct, and his associates, a detail that suggests the federal investigation has moved beyond a preliminary review into active witness outreach.
Mills serves on two of the House's most sensitive panels: Armed Services and Intelligence. A criminal investigation of a member with access to classified briefings and defense budget oversight raises obvious questions about whether leadership will revisit those committee assignments while the probe continues.
The House Ethics Committee, a traditionally secretive panel, opened its own investigation into Mills in November 2025. By April, the committee released a statement confirming the inquiry was still ongoing and noting that it involves "sexual misconduct and/or dating violence." The panel did not specify a timeline for wrapping up its work.
The scope of the ethics probe is broad. Newsmax reported that the committee authorized nearly 20 subpoenas, gathered thousands of documents, and contacted dozens of witnesses. The investigation covers campaign finance issues, financial disclosures, government contracts, and personal conduct, a sprawling mandate that overlaps with several of the allegations in Mace's expulsion resolution.
Mills is not the only Republican facing mounting institutional scrutiny from within his own party. But the combination of a federal criminal probe and a formal ethics investigation puts him in an unusually precarious position for a second-term congressman.
Rep. Nancy Mace filed her motion to expel Mills in April. The resolution accused him of misrepresenting his military service, sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations, and illicit involvement in federal contracts as a member of Congress, "among other charges."
The underlying allegations trace back more than a year. In February 2025, Mills was accused of domestic abuse. In July 2025, a separate allegation surfaced that he threatened to release explicit images of a romantic partner, an accusation that, if substantiated, could constitute blackmail under federal or state law. Mills has denied wrongdoing on all counts.
Mace's resolution carries political weight even if it never reaches the two-thirds vote required for expulsion. It puts every House Republican on record: stand by a colleague under federal investigation, or side with the member calling him out. That kind of vote forces a caucus to show its hand on accountability, and the GOP's slim majority makes every defection visible.
The Washington Examiner reported that the Ethics Committee launched its formal probe ahead of a scheduled censure vote against Mills, suggesting that the institutional machinery moved in part because the political pressure became impossible to ignore.
Mills won his Florida seat in 2022 and held it in 2024. He is running for a third term this November, but the legal and ethical clouds have already attracted competition. A former Florida news anchor launched a primary bid against Mills, a sign that Republican voters in his district may have options if the investigations continue to deepen.
Bipartisan calls for Mills to resign or face expulsion add another layer of political risk. When members of your own party are filing expulsion resolutions and the Ethics Committee is issuing subpoenas by the dozen, the usual playbook, deny, delay, and hope voters forget, becomes harder to execute.
Federal investigations of sitting members of Congress are not unheard of, but they remain uncommon enough to carry serious consequences. The FBI's willingness to contact witnesses about a congressman's finances and associates signals that the DOJ probe is not a passive file review.
Several critical gaps remain in the public record. The DOJ has not disclosed what specific conduct or criminal statutes it is examining. It is unclear whether the federal probe and the Ethics Committee investigation are related or entirely separate tracks. The status of Mace's expulsion resolution, whether it has been scheduled for a vote or referred to committee, is also unknown.
Mills's denial is on record, and he has not been charged. Those facts matter. But the volume of institutional action, a federal criminal investigation, an ethics probe backed by nearly 20 subpoenas and thousands of documents, an expulsion resolution from a fellow Republican, and a primary challenger, paints a picture of a congressman whose legal and political problems are compounding faster than his denials can keep up.
The DOJ's investigative decisions carry weight regardless of the target's party affiliation. Republicans who demand accountability from the other side cannot look away when the evidence trail leads to one of their own.
Voters in Mills's district, and the Republican conference in Washington, will have to decide whether a congressman under active federal criminal investigation, facing ethics subpoenas, and targeted for expulsion by a fellow Republican deserves another term. The facts, not the denials, should drive that answer.