Republican Representative Cory Mills is Getting Attention for all the Wrong Reasons

Today we will ponder the question, "How much trouble can a Congressman get into and still remain a Congressman?" Spoiler alert: If you are a Republican and represent the 7th District of Florida, the answer appears to be "unlimited." At least that seems to be the case with Representative Cory Mills, who may or may not have 99 problems, but women make up quite a few of them. Or, more accurately, Mills is the problem where a number of women are concerned.

If you were casting for the evil character in a political drama, you could hardly do better than Cory Mills. Mills served four years in the Army, including a stint in Iraq during which he received a Bronze Star. However, there have been allegations of stolen valor made against Mills and soldiers involved in the events that led to his award deny Mills' account of what happened. After leaving the military, Mills became an international arms dealer. One of his weapons deals was a $228 million arms sale to the government of Iraq. However, his company, PACM, soon ran into financial problems and has been plagued with large debts that the company has been unable to service. Mills' company has also supplied less-lethal munitions to domestic law enforcement agencies, and Mills has bragged that he supplied tear gas that was used against Black Lives Matter protesters.

Mills first ran for Congress in 2022. Arriving at the Capitol, Mills introduced himself to his new colleagues by handing out inert 40mm grenades. During his first term, Mills didn't do much more than establish himself as a stalwart MAGA Member of Congress, supporting resolutions to impeach former President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, former FBI director Christopher Wray, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. However, the Office of Congressional Ethics opened an investigation into Mills due to inconsistent financial statements that raised questions about where he had obtained $1.8 million that he used to fund his Congressional campaign. The Office also found that Mills' company had received close to a million dollars in government contracts in contravention of federal laws and House of Representatives' rules that prohibit members of Congress from receiving government contracts. Mills was reelected again in 2024 and, in March of this year, the House Committee on Ethics announced that it would investigate Mills based on a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct (previously named the "Office of Congressional Ethics").

Mills first came to my attention when I wrote a blog post about then Interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin. Mills has been married but is apparently separated. On February 19, 2025, police were called to a luxury apartment at The Wharf in Southwest DC where a woman said that "(Her significant other for over a year) grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out of the door". Police officers who arrived at the building witnessed "bruises on her arm which appeared fresh." While with the police, the woman and Mills spoke on the phone and the police heard him "instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises". The police intended to arrest Mills, but then "the woman approached police and recanted the details". District of Columbia law specifies that Mills should have still been arrested. Instead, the police sent an arrest warrant for Mills to the U.S. Attorney’s office. However, Ed Martin, a MAGA supporter who defended many of the January 6 defendants who attacked the Capitol Building, refused to sign the warrant. Eventually, it appears that the case was dropped.

That was not the end of Mills' problem with that apartment, however. This summer, Mills faced eviction from the apartment, for which he pays $21,000 per month because he had fallen $85,000 behind on his rent. Mills claimed that he had been trying to pay his rent online but had problems with the payment link. However, that did not explain why he had fallen behind on his rent many months prior to his problems with the link. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Mills "incurred a total of nearly $15,000 in late fees between September 2023 and January 2025". Eventually, Mills was able to pay what was owed and avoided eviction.

For Mills, however, there was still more fallout from the February assault incident. While Mills, who technically is probably still married, was apparently involved in a year-long relationship with the woman who had accused him of assault and displayed a bruised arm, Mills had another girlfriend in Florida. This one was Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States. Langston is also a Florida Republican state committeewoman. Langston says that she has been dating Mills since November 2021 and moved into his Florida residence last summer. When she learned about his second girlfriend due to national news reports of the assault incident, she broke up with him. Mills, however, doesn't appear to take rejection well and has been harassing Langston for months. Langston has been forced to turn to the police and has filed a restraining order against Mills. According to Langston, Mills has been "threatening to release sexual videos, and to harm future boyfriends"

Drop Site News has an in-depth report about Langston's allegations regarding Mills, but I will summarize some of the article. Langston has "provided local and state investigators with timestamped digital evidence to support her allegations, which she also shared with Drop Site." As Drop Site reported:

The evidence covers months of interactions and includes text messages in which Mills—who says he separated from his wife in 2022—warned Langston he posed a threat to anyone she wanted to date in the future (“Strap up, cowboy,” he said in one text) and threatened to release private images shared in the context of their relationship. Langston submitted the evidence to back up an incident report she filed with the Columbia County sheriff’s office last month.

Mills has allegedly threatened to "release nude images and videos" of Langston and has been "threatening to harm any men Lindsey intended to date in the future." When Drop Site confronted Mills with the Langston's allegations, Mills "sent several text messages asking her to take back her allegations". Langston is concerned that, like the investigation in Washington, DC, law enforcement may be subject to political pressure. She is quoted as saying, "because he is an elected official and public figure this will be put off, putting me at risk. I worry that I am simply poking the bear."

Drop Site also located three other former romantic partners of Mills who all had remarkably similar accounts of their relationships with him. According to Drop Site, "they believe Mills is frightening, disloyal, and unstable." Moreover, "Mills has threatened multiple women to deter them from speaking about him publicly, according to five people with knowledge of the threats." Drop Site says that "The three other women described Mills as a liar, saying he confidently misled them about fundamental facts of his life." Two of the women interviewed by Drop Site separately described Mills as a "psychopath".

Langston also claimed to have witnessed Mills receiving "sacks of cash". Another ex-girlfriend told Drop Site that Mills would receive bank pouches that "he would sometimes claim carried as much as $100,000." Langston says that the money came from Mills' weapons company, PACEM. During the ethics investigation of Mills, he claimed to have sold his interest in the company.

Mills, with a string of ex-girlfriends, allegations of violence and harassment, a pile of unpaid debts, suspicious financial arrangements, a host of ethics problems, and a personal history that may be exaggerated, if not outright invented, might be the perfect MAGA Republican for these times. Sort of as if cult leader, convicted felon, and failed President Donald Trump and ex-Congressman George Santos had a baby. So far, his Republican connections are protecting him. Whether that continues remains to be seen. Certainly, Trump will see him as a kindred soul. Mills is fitting for the party of "family values" that is convinced that transgender people are the true threat to our way of life.

On a final note, I will be busy the next two mornings and will not be able to write blog posts. I'll be back on Monday, however.