Pregnant with Georgelas’s fourth child, she left with him for Syria in 2013. She escaped with their three sons after just three weeks.

Ms Joya then relocated to Texas, where she began working with American authorities to locate Georgelas, who was later killed in 2017.

Ms Joya told Breitbart News she first met Mr Taylor in August of 2019, when she was looking to get involved with the Preventing Violent Extremism program. She thought the congressman might have connections to facilitate her involvement.

‘He labelled me his girlfriend, his mistress’

Ms Joya says she started the affair when she told Mr Taylor she found him attractive. The pair soon began exchanging explicit text messages.

“He considered me his girlfriend. He labelled me his girlfriend, his mistress,” Ms Joya said. “I told him that I found him attractive. After that for an entire month, every day during October 2020, he wouldn’t stop messaging me like crazy.

“He said he wanted me to be his loyal, faithful, and permanent mistress,” she claimed.

Ms Joya claims she asked Mr Taylor for $5,000 to help pay down her credit card. Mr Taylor obliged, according to Ms Joya, but in exchange for deleting additional text messages documenting the affair.