Posted on 03/31/2021 11:08:47 AM PDT by conservative98
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father, Don, a former Florida Senate president, said he is working with the FBI, including wearing a wire on more than one occasion as part of an investigation into an alleged extortion plot that the pair said was organized by former federal prosecutor David McGee.
“The FBI asked me to try and get that information for Matt and an indication we would transfer money to Mr. David McGee,” Don Gaetz said in an interview late Tuesday, without specifying what information he was referring to.
McGee, who is now in private practice with a Pensacola, Fla.-based law firm, did not respond to a POLITICO request seeking comment, but told other media outlets there is no truth to the alleged extortion plot.
Don Gaetz said in the interview he wore a wire during a meeting earlier this month with McGee and said he was set to meet Wednesday with Stephen Alford, a local developer who he said is also part of the alleged extortion scheme. During that meeting, Don Gaetz said, he was again set to wear a wire and try to get Alford to talk about payments he allegedly was to make to McGee, but the meeting fell apart when news broke that his son was being investigated by the Justice Department. Alford did not respond to text messages seeking comment.
In separate interviews, Don and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) acknowledged a Justice Department probe involving the younger Gaetz, 38, into whether he had improper involvement with a 17-year-old girl. The Gaetzes say they are the target of an extortion plot seeking money to keep the DOJ investigation quiet.
The allegations dropped as the younger Gaetz's profile has been rising. The Donald Trump devotee rode the former president's coattails into prominence and frequent conservative media appearances during Trump's presidency after having been elected to Congress in 2016. While his name is frequently on lists for higher office, Axios reported this week that Gaetz has considered leaving Congress to take a job at conservative news outlet Newsmax.
Matt Gaetz denied any involvement with the teen. The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the Justice Department was investigating whether the lawmaker had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and had paid for her to travel with him across state lines. He told the Times he is the subject but not the target of the DOJ investigation.
Those actions could violate federal sex trafficking laws, according to The Times, which cited three people briefed on the matter. Gaetz has not been charged with any crime.
Then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr was briefed on the Gaetz probe and did not take issue with it, a source familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
Barr and the Office of the Attorney General received multiple briefings on the Gaetz probe, beginning in the summer of 2020, a second person familiar with the probe said. They encouraged Florida prosecutors to move as quickly as they needed to and take whatever steps were appropriate. The briefings were consistent with Barr's memo requiring notification to department leadership on probes of candidates. The briefing was important because — among other reasons — Barr didn't want to accidentally appear anywhere with Gaetz, the person said. At one point, Barr was scheduled for a meet-and-greet with Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. But DOJ canceled his appearance at the event when they saw that Gaetz, a member of that committee, had RSVP'd for it.
The FBI asked me to try and get that information.
And it will be filed next to Hillary’s e-mails.
It reeks of a democrat M.O.
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/20151125/NEWS/151129480
I watched the interview, Tucker was being obtuse.
Who cares? If he did “have a relationship”, consensual in nature, with a 17 year old woman, so what? Big deal. It would be a minor matter compared to the really immoral transgressions of the opposition. But, it sounds more like a deep state setup.
The mystery girl is now a mystery woman if she is real to begin with.
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Yes.
Tucker Carlson wanted to mock Gaetz story for his FOX Masters.
Tucker said, it’s time to leave Hunter alone - and Gaetz has persisted.
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The entire scam against Gaetz is coming apart.
American justice? What a bunch of bullshit? Where have you been. Hillary gets preferential treatment as does the Clinton foundation, Antifa &BLM, get away with looting and murder, while many 1/6 patriots sit in jail on no bail. The SCOTUS refused to hear voter fraud, a President’s voice is silenced and they tell me he has no standing. This American Congressman won’t get your good old American justice because he’s on the other side.American justice is long gone.
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What does Sinister Bob say....
Senator Bob Menendez only ‘likes the youngest and newest girls’ says Dominican prostitute who ‘attended alleged sex parties with him’
The law firm won a multimillion dollar case against Iran, not that Iran will pay it.
The smoke is that Levinson’s case was directly under Russiagate’s Andrew McCabe...
...and involves Cbris Steele pal, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Levinson’s field of expertise when he was in the FBI is the Russian mob.
If the lawyer guy extorting Gaetz was a friend and coworker of Levinson, odds are the lawyer might have dealings with the Russian mob too.
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