2026年4月16日 美国东部时间20:13 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：乔·沃尔什
乔·沃尔什是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻数字政治高级编辑。他此前曾为《福布斯》报道突发新闻，并在波士顿从事地方新闻报道。
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佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·宝琳娜·卢娜周四指控民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈行为不端，加列戈对此予以否认。
卢娜在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻《与梅杰·加勒特的外卖访谈》节目采访时表示，这位亚利桑那州民主党人就是她本周早些时候在一条隐晦的社交媒体帖文中提到的、面临“令人非常不安”指控的那位未具名参议员。
加列戈的发言人周四对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示：“这些是右翼阴谋论，被国会中的一名极端边缘右翼成员照搬传播。加列戈参议员未收到道德委员会的任何通知，也未与其接触过。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻尚未核实这些指控。
卢娜并未详细说明指控内容，但表示其中一些“涉及性方面”，还有一些涉及所谓的竞选财务违规行为。她还称参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩的办公室已向她证实，此事正在调查中。
卢娜将加列戈称为“与埃里克·斯沃威尔关系非常密切的参议员”。斯沃威尔是众议院民主党议员，本周因性行为不端指控辞职。
卢娜说：“有一名女性据称将带着律师出面，公开讲述两人之间发生的一起事件，据称该事件涉及性方面。”
当被追问更多细节时，卢娜补充道：“我认为，任何时候你明知故犯地花钱购买性服务，都是一件应该严肃对待的事情。”
加列戈近日强烈否认有不当行为。他本周早些时候告诉记者，他从未与员工或婚姻之外的女性发生过任何性行为不端或其他不当行为。
加列戈曾与斯沃威尔是朋友，但后来呼吁将其逐出国会。他本周早些时候承认，自己听说过斯沃威尔“行为轻浮”的传言，但随后表示，他“从未听过实际的骚扰员工或对员工有掠夺性行为的指控”。加列戈还说自己“被骗了”。
就在卢娜点名加列戈的几个小时前，图恩告诉记者，他不知道这位众议员所指控的“令人非常不安”的行为是否可信，但他表示此事已被提交给参议院道德特别委员会。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系该道德委员会征求评论。
这一事件发生之际，斯沃威尔和他的前共和党同事、众议员托尼·冈萨雷斯在数小时内相继正式辞去众议院职务，此前要求将他们逐出众议院的压力不断升级。斯沃威尔被指控性侵和未经请求发送裸照，冈萨雷斯被指控与一名后来自杀的员工有染。
卢娜一直直言不讳地呼吁打击行为不端指控，她本周早些时候告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，她预计其他议员也将面临类似的压力。
克里斯蒂安·佩尼亚、艾伦·何和妮可·基利安对本篇报道亦有贡献。
GOP Rep. Luna accuses Sen. Ruben Gallego of misconduct; Gallego calls allegations “conspiracy theories”
2026-04-16 20:13 EDT / CBS News
By Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston.
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Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida accused Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of misconduct on Thursday, which Gallego denied.
Luna told CBS News’ “The Takeout with Major Garrett” that the Arizona Democrat was the previously unnamed senator whom she said was facing “very disturbing” allegations in a cryptic social media post earlier this week.
A Gallego spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday: “These are right wing conspiracy theories being parroted by a fringe far right member of Congress. Senator Gallego has not received notification or been contacted by the ethics committee.”
CBS News has not verified the allegations.
Luna did not give much detail about the allegations, but she said some of them are “sexual in nature” and some of them involve alleged campaign finance violations. She also said Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office confirmed to her that the matter is under investigation.
Luna referred to Gallego as a senator “that was very closely tied to Eric Swalwell,” a House Democrat who resigned from Congress this week following sexual misconduct allegations.
Luna said “there is a woman that allegedly is coming forward with attorneys [and] wants to go on-record about an incident that occurred between the two of them at the same time, and the event was sexual in nature, allegedly.”
Pressed for further details, Luna added that “I think any time that you are knowingly engaging in purchasing someone for sex, that that is something that should be taken seriously.”
Gallego has strongly denied wrongdoing in recent days. He told reporters earlier this week he has never engaged in any sexual misconduct or other inappropriate behavior with staff or women outside of his marriage.
Gallego — who was friends with Swalwell but later called for his expulsion from Congress — acknowledged earlier this week that he was aware of rumors of Swalwell acting “flirty.” But he later said that he’d “never heard actual accusations of harassment of staff or predatory behavior toward staff.” Gallego also said he “fell for the lies.”
Hours before Luna named Gallego, Thune told reporters that he didn’t know whether the congresswoman’s allegations of “very disturbing” behavior were credible, but he said it had been referred to the Senate’s Select Committee on Ethics. CBS News has reached out to the ethics panel for comment.
The saga comes just days after Swalwell and his former GOP colleague, Rep. Tony Gonzales, formally resigned from the House within hours of each other as pressure mounted to expel them from the lower chamber. Swalwell has been accused of sexual assault and sending unsolicited nude photos, and Gonzales has been accused of having an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide.
Luna has been outspoken about the need to crack down on allegations of misconduct, telling CBS News earlier this week that she expects other lawmakers to face similar pressure.
Christian Peña, Alan He and Nikole Killion contributed to this report.
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