Josh ChristensonSeptember 13, 2024 at 3:28 PM
The wife of the chairman of the powerful House Homeland Security Committee said he filed for divorce last month after having an affair with a younger woman, The Post has learned.
Camilla “Camie“ Green accused her husband, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), of “having an affair with a 32 year old woman” in a group text sent Wednesday to other lawmakers that was reviewed by The Post.
Green’s wife charged that the other woman, whom she did not name,was employed by political news outlet Axios, but according to a cease-and-desist letter obtained by The Post, Axios’ in-house counsel called the claim “false and per se defamatory.”
“Your message has not only caused this reporter considerable emotional distress, it has harmed her professional reputation,” Axios content counsel Brian Westley wrote to Camie Green.
“We therefore insist that you immediately set the record straight by sending a short follow-up text to the group that states: ‘I made a mistake when I wrote that Mark had an affair with a woman working at Axios. That is not true, and I apologize for the distress and harm I have caused to anyone my message might have impacted.’”
Mark Green, a Tennesee Republican, is chairman of the powerful House Homeland Security Committee. The