The problems keep piling up for Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., an Army veteran who was awarded a Bronze Star for valor and has been endorsed by leading “pro-family” political groups.
On Friday, Mills, 45, will attend a hearing in Florida on charges that he has threatened his former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, 25, the reigning Miss United States, with revenge porn.
An investigation into assaulting a different woman in Washington, D.C., may be on hold after that woman withdrew her claims.
And former soldiers are raising questions of “stolen valor” over Mills’ claims about his military service.
Mills may also face a House Ethics Committee review over allegations that he has benefited personally from federal weapons contracts while in office. And Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are threatening to censure him.
Lindsey Langston
Mills dismisses the bad news, much of it explored in an August Washington Post report, saying he’s under attack from his political opponents.
Mills and Lindsey Langston met in 2021 and soon decided to move in together in Florida, even though Mills was married to someone else at the time but separated from his wife. The couple divorced three years later, in 2024.
Langston was crowned Miss United States in October 2024. She ended her relationship with Mills the next February after seeing reports about him assaulting a different woman in D.C.
She says the threats from Mills began immediately: Threats to release images and videos of them having sex and threats to hurt any other man she dated.
Langston filed a police report but no charges have been filed. Friday’s hearing will determine what happens next.
Meanwhile, Mills faces questions about the claims behind his Bronze Star. In May, the news outlet NOTUS reported five soldiers who served with Mills don’t remember him being present during a shootout with Iraqi troops in 2003. The detractors include two men whose lives were saved back then but who deny it was Mills who saved them.
Then there was the problem of past-due rent. As the Washington Post reported: “Mills faced an eviction effort by his landlord, who said in July that the congressman owed more than $85,000 on his penthouse apartment. The problem was resolved this week, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.”
With Republicans in control of the U.S. House, it’s not clear how far the House Ethics Committee review into Mills’ alleged self-dealing on federal contracts will go. Meanwhile, Mills continues to sit on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees, Politico reported.
Mills has been endorsed by conservative pro-family political groups, including:
- Family Research Council Action (100)
- Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum (100%)
- Heritage Action for America (98%)
- Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (94%)