A court docket on Thursday declined to situation an instantaneous restraining order towards Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a girl who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their break-up, in accordance with a court docket doc reviewed by The Hill, however ordered each Mills and the girl 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, in accordance with lawyer Anthony Sabatini who has consulted together with her.
She individually instructed legislation enforcement final month that Mills had threatened to release specific pictures and movies of her, in accordance with 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 lively inquiries or investigations.”
Mills has stated that these claims “are false and misrepresent the character of my interactions,” and in a Thursday assertion in regards to the court docket resolution stated the “accusations are baseless.”
“As a common rule, if you’re in a position to put together an ex parte injunction— a one-sided assault— you’re going to guide along with your best possible proof. On this case, the choose absolutely rejected the accusations and located them inadequate to help any of the allegations,” Mills stated in a press release 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 post on social media, made as a result of Mills had stopped allegedly harassing Langston final month.
The court docket did, nevertheless, 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 Courtroom finds that based mostly upon the info, as said within the Petition alone and with no listening to on the matter, there is no such thing as a look of an instantaneous and current hazard of home violence; repeat, courting or sexual violence, or stalking, or that stalking exists. Due to this fact, there may be not a enough factual foundation upon which the court docket can enter a Short-term Injunction for Safety Towards Home, Repeat, Courting, or Sexual Violence, or Stalking, previous to a listening to,” 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 Site News and Blaze News, have 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 have been investigating a bodily altercation between Mills and one other lady in his Washington, D.C. residence (which each Mills and the alleged sufferer later denied).
After the break-up, “Cory has contacted Lindsey quite a few instances on quite a few totally different accounts threatening to launch nude photographs and movies of her, to incorporate recorded movies of her and Cory partaking in sexual acts,” the incident report stated.
Mills has taken intention at Langston consulting with Sabatini, a former Florida state consultant who ran within the Republican major towards Mills for his congressional seat in 2022. Sabatini has known as for Mills to resign within the wake of the allegations.
“As soon as once more, Anthony Sabatini, who was my major opponent in 2022, must be combating on the poll field— which he misplaced to me— however as an alternative, he seems extra eager about weaponizing his judicial system towards a former political opponent,” Mills stated as a part of a lengthy statement on the court docket order.
“It’s tragic the best way he continues to make use of individuals to serve his political agenda of attacking me. And as soon as once more, he has turned up empty-handed, with nothing greater than pretend information in his promotion spherical of baseless assaults.”
Mills in contrast his scenario to President Trump being “relentlessly focused by political opponents with baseless accusations,” including that Sabatini was “borrowing ways from the novel 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.
“Whereas the accusations are baseless, I sincerely hope he’s not utilizing his consumer as a sacrifice on the altar for his personal political ambitions,” Mills stated. “Breakups occur, but it surely’s actually tragic when a washed‑up politician drags another person into his vendetta. I want Ms. Langston properly and real happiness.”