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At the least one girl has reportedly admitted to the Home Ethics Committee that Matt Gaetz paid her for intercourse by Venmo.
Investigators on the committee have interviewed half a dozen ladies, based on ABC Information, and the ladies have been proven Venmo funds from the Florida Republican to them and requested in the event that they have been for intercourse.
The ladies allegedly had attended events with Gaetz and his former buddy Joel Greenberg, who in 2022 was sentenced to 11 years in jail for intercourse trafficking a minor.
Whereas one girl mentioned she was paid straight for intercourse, others mentioned they have been paid to attend the events that featured medication and intercourse.
The Home Ethics Committee in a uncommon public assertion introduced they might conduct ‘additional overview’ into Rep. Matt Gaetz on fees that embody intercourse abuse and illicit drug use.
The ladies allegedly had attended events with Gaetz and his former buddy Joel Greenberg, who in 2022 was sentenced to 11 years in jail for intercourse trafficking a minor
Gaetz has denied the entire allegations which have lengthy swirled round him, together with paying for intercourse. ‘Somebody is attempting to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as one thing extra untoward,’ he mentioned beforehand.
The Ethics Committee obtained Gaetz’s Venmo data by a subpoena.
The Division of Justice beforehand investigated Gaetz for allegedly intercourse trafficking a minor however knowledgeable him they might not carry fees in 2023 after problems with witness credibility.
The Ethics Committee in a uncommon public assertion on Tuesday introduced they might conduct ‘additional overview’ into Gaetz on fees that embody intercourse abuse and illicit drug use.
Gaetz on Monday had mentioned the committee was opening ‘new frivolous investigations’ into him which he blamed on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The allegations the committee mentioned it’s conducting additional overview on embody whether or not Gaetz ‘engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper items, allotted particular privileges and favors to people with whom he had a private relationship, and sought to hinder authorities investigations of his conduct.’
The brand new investigation is the obstruction probe. Others have been ongoing.
Gaetz has denied the entire allegations and the committee mentioned he has been ‘tough’ to acquire data from. They’ve already spoken with greater than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas and reviewed 1000’s of pages of paperwork.
The committee confirmed they may not conduct additional overview into whether or not Gaetz ‘shared inappropriate photos or movies on the Home ground, misused state identification data, transformed marketing campaign funds to private use, and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.’
Gaetz sounded off in regards to the committee on X: ‘The Home Ethics Committee has closed 4 probes into me, which emerged from lies supposed solely to smear me. As a substitute of working with me to ban Congressional inventory buying and selling, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They’re doing this to keep away from the plain truth that each investigation into me ends the identical method: my exoneration.’
‘That is Soviet. Kevin McCarthy confirmed them the person, and they’re now looking for the crime. I work for Northwest Floridians who will not be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons realize it.’
McCarthy insisted that Gaetz launched the movement to vacate him from the speakership as a result of he was offended that McCarthy wouldn’t finish the Ethics probe into him.
The committee beforehand paused then restarted its probe into Gaetz in order to not intrude with a separate Division of Justice (DOJ) investigation. The DOJ opted to not indict Gaetz over claims he intercourse trafficked a 17-year-old lady.
Gaetz has constantly denied allegations he helped a neighborhood Florida tax collector buddy Joel Greenberg visitors the lady throughout state strains.
Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in jail in December 2022 after he pled responsible in a plea deal.
Gaetz on Monday had mentioned the committee was opening ‘new frivolous investigations’ into him which he blamed on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Gaetz first got here to investigators’ consideration due to his friendship with Greenberg, described as his ‘wingman’, who final yr pleaded responsible to 6 counts of fraud and sexual offenses.
Greenberg informed investigators that Gaetz and not less than two different males had sexual contact with a 17-year-old lady.
He has informed them that they each gave ladies money and items in trade for intercourse.
Greenberg pleaded responsible to id theft, stalking, wire fraud, conspiracy to bribe a public official and intercourse trafficking of a minor.
