Restraining Order for ‘Dating Violence’ Issued Against Current US Congressman

A Florida congressman has been ordered to maintain distance from his former girlfriend after a judge issued a restraining order. The decision came following allegations that he harassed her post-breakup upon discovering his romantic involvement with another woman in Washington, D.C.

Lindsey Langston, a 26-year-old Republican committee member and Miss United States titleholder, has accused U.S. Representative Cory Mills, 45, of threatening her with the release of explicit videos and potential harm to any future partners, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Mills, elected to Congress in 2022, has denied these claims. However, Circuit Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. found Langston’s account convincing and dismissed Mills’ testimony as largely incoherent and unreliable during the two-day hearing.

Judge Koberlein has prohibited Mills from approaching within 500 feet of Langston and restricted him from engaging in any form of communication with her, including references on social media.

The restraining order is set to remain in effect until January 1, according to the judge’s ruling.

In the hearing, testimony revealed that Langston and Mills began dating in November 2021. Mills is married and the father of a young child, but he and his wife have lived separatedly since 2019.

Langston told the court that she because suspicious of Mills’ “faithfulness and loyalty to their relationship” when she found out about “Girlfriend 2,” as Sarah Raviani was referred to in court documents. She said she first learned he was spending time with her in December 2024, and the following month learned police had been called to a residence in DC for a domestic dispute between Raviani and Mills.

At that point, Langston moved out of Mills’ home in Volusia County, Florida, and broke off their relationship, but Mills continued to call and text her repeatedly through June, even though he was living with Raviani in DC. Langston said the calls and texts caused her “substantial emotional distress” and that the congressman ignored her requests to leave her alone.

Court documents provided some of those messages

“You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest, But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time,” he wrote on May 7, according to WTLV, followed a week later by, “May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.”

That same day, he wrote, “I can send him a few videos of you as well[.] Oh, I still have them.”

The judge noted 11 documented requests from Langston asked for Mills to leave her alone, all of which were ignored.

Mills testified that he had deleted such video and that his phone was damaged and he couldn’t access them anyway, the Sentinel reported.

Mills is an Army veteran and co-founder of a number of defense contracting and security companies that have come under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee, which is investigating whether he may have benefitted from federal contracts while in office.