Alleged DOJ Extortionist David McGee Responds To Rep. Matt Gaetz

Populist Press ^ | 03/31/2021

[SeekAndFind]

Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed that, as part of an FBI sting, his father was sup­posed to con­tact this for­mer DOJ employ­ee on Wednes­day to arrange a down­pay­ment of $4.5 mil­lion on the $25 mil­lion extor­tion. The U.S. Attorney’s Offices for North­ern and Cen­tral Flori­da declined to comment.

“I don’t think it’s a coin­ci­dence that tonight some­how The New York Times is leak­ing this infor­ma­tion, smear­ing me and ruin­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion that would like­ly result in a one of the for­mer col­leagues of the cur­rent DOJ being brought to jus­tice,” Gaetz said.

Gaetz told Fox that the for­mer DOJ employ­ee going after him was David McGee, now a lawyer at Beg­gs & Lane. In an inter­view with The Dai­ly Beast late Tues­day night, McGee said any reports of extor­tion involv­ing him or his firm were “com­plete­ly, total­ly false.”

“This is a bla­tant attempt to dis­tract from the fact that Matt Gaetz is appar­ent­ly about to be indict­ed for sex traf­fick­ing under­age girls,” McGee said.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) on Fox News just accused David McGee, former DOJ official now with the Florida law firm Beggs & Lane, of attempting to extort him. McGee did not immediately responded to requests for comment via email/phone

Before the Fox inter­view Tues­day night, Gaetz used his Twit­ter to call on the Jus­tice Depart­ment to “imme­di­ate­ly release the tapes, made at their direc­tion, which impli­cate their for­mer col­league in crimes against me based on false allegations.”

When asked how long, and in what ways, he had been coop­er­at­ing with the feds, the MAGA con­gress­man sim­ply texted The Dai­ly Beast on Tues­day night, “March 16 first extor­tion text was sent.” He did not imme­di­ate­ly reply to fol­low-up mes­sages seek­ing clarification.

Andrea Clark, a spokes­woman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the North­ern Dis­trict of Flori­da, pro­vid­ed no fur­ther clar­i­ty. “We don’t con­firm or deny the exis­tence of any ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion. We can’t make any kind of com­ment,” she said.

The sup­posed DOJ offi­cial extort­ing Matt Gaetz was David McGee, a career guy in DOJ who served as a 1st AUSA. Not some­one in a posi­tion to extort. He says, “This is a bla­tant attempt to dis­tract from the fact that Gaetz is appar­ent­ly about to indict­ed for sex traf­fick­ing girls.”

— Har­ry Lit­man (@harrylitman) March 31, 2021

Clip—> https://t.co/B2embBWenS

— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) March 31, 2021

[heartwood]

Transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes is a federal offense, as is giving her any material goods in exchange for sex. Even dinner.

[Truthoverpower]

And yet another non-story starts making headlines as long as it hurts Republicans

[chuckee]

“Transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes is a federal offense, as is giving her any material goods in exchange for sex. Even dinner.”

Depends on the girl and the dinner. In my day, that was called getting lucky with a Big Mac. But, then again, I didn’t eat healthy or keep the best of company when I was young

[kiryandil]

Just so...

[Rock N Jones]

Well McGee, Grand Juries are notorious for indicting ham sandwiches with turkey meat covered in bird doo-doo.

[ready2brd]

Crossing state lines with intent to have sex with a minor invokes Federal Laws. And interestingly, regardless of the age of consent in the states visited, the Federal Age of Consent of 18 applies.

[rxh4n1]

McGee and the New York Times should not have had any knowledge of an investigation. This stinks.