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Matt Gaetz names former DOJ official he says tried to extort his family for $25 million
Washington Examiner ^ | March 30, 2021 - 8:55 PM | By Daniel Chaitin & Jake Dima

Posted on 03/30/2021 6:39:37 PM PDT by conservative98

David McGee, an attorney with Beggs & Lane, is the man the Florida Republican named during an appearance Tuesday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in which he responded to reports that he is under federal investigation over a former relationship.

McGee served for six years as the first assistant at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and for seven years as the lead attorney for a Justice Department's Organized Crime Task Force, according to his biography on the website of his law firm, which is based in Pensacola, Florida.

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The New York Times reported Gaetz, 38, is being looked at as part of a broader investigation into local Florida official Joel Greenberg, a political ally who was indicted last summer on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a minor and financially supporting people in exchange for sex, at least one of whom was an underage girl.

Investigators are said to be examining whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship two years ago with a girl believed to have been 17 at the time and paid her to travel with him. Specifically authorities are trying to determine whether he violated federal sex trafficking laws.

Gaetz told Carlson that the FBI, alongside the Department of Justice, had his father wear a wire to eavesdrop on conversations between him and McGee, who the lawmaker alleged was trying to receive $25 million in exchange for making the allegations disappear. The Florida Republican said his father was set to catch McGee on Wednesday in the act demanding "4.5 million" as a "down payment" on the "bribe," adding further that the New York Times leak hampered the investigation.

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To: MarvinStinson
Gateway Pundit opened with this charmer:

a source close to Matt Gaetz who told us this report is completely false. Gaetz is not the target of the investigation. We were also told none of the women he was seeing were underage.

WTH?

They are implying that "none of the women he was seeing were underage" as if he was "seeing other women" who were not underage?

WTH?

That is either really sloppy writing, or intentionally written that way.

121 posted on 03/31/2021 6:43:32 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: conservative98

“Gaetz also claimed McGee wasn’t working alone, and the group said they had “connections” within the Biden White House”

Well, then it’s already been debunked./s


122 posted on 03/31/2021 6:48:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: usconservative
...My opinion: Gaetz isn't telling the full truth.

It's possible that he's concerned about pending legal actions and has to take care not to disclose confidential information. There's also possible embarrassment about traveling with young, but legal age, female companions.

123 posted on 03/31/2021 6:52:40 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: central_va

“The Deep State™ is capable of manufacturing anything and doing anything.”

Agree, however even the fake impeachments had something for the deep state to put their footing on as ridiculous and innocent as they were, (the perfect phone call and the Jan.6th protest).

My question is what is the ‘something’ that they are using to spring board Gaetz’s smear job.


124 posted on 03/31/2021 7:04:52 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP ( )
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To: Who is John Galt?

That maybe true, but a U.S. Congressman should always perform a background check on any relationship. What if a prospective woman is a Democrat?


125 posted on 03/31/2021 7:05:14 AM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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To: hsmomx3
"Except I haven’t seen Matt on War Room in awhile, have you?"

Yes he dropped in unexpectedly 3 weeks ago.

126 posted on 03/31/2021 7:08:33 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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"David McGee, an attorney with Beggs & Lane, is the man the Florida Republican named during an appearance Tuesday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in which he responded to reports that he is under federal investigation over a former relationship."

Just hilarious to read the usual old retired FB-banned suspects attack Gaetz and yet display complete disinterest in this guy McGee.

127 posted on 03/31/2021 7:09:56 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: piasa
"Accuser David McGee is a former DoJ guy"

Under Bubba, McGee briefly rose to a minor player as an Assistant DA in Florida, mostly drug trafficking but also was involved in US v. F. Lee Bailey that sent that schlep to jail. This is the braggadochio on this finocchio's website:

McGee's salad days are long over so it's easy to imagine this is yet another in a long string of old Democrats who make a vainglorious attempt to be relevant long after falling off the Donkey Cart.

The big tell is that this doofus must have shopped this rumor so far and wide that it immediately reached Gaetz, and the NYT.

128 posted on 03/31/2021 7:35:44 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: StAnDeliver

Must’ve been when I was watching the grand-babies and I missed it :(


129 posted on 03/31/2021 8:18:27 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: central_va

Is that the best way to prove innocence? Maybe it is.


130 posted on 03/31/2021 8:35:57 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: conservative98

The entire system is corrupt, expect the SCOTUS to give a free pass as they recently did with Hillary.


131 posted on 03/31/2021 8:41:45 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: af_vet_1981

It is sad to me that providing transportation and flights to an adult woman he was dating is now the moral refuge.

Obviously a 17 year old would be more sinful and is still a crime but it is still sad. A politician would not have righteously stated that he was fornicating with an adult in times past. America has really slidden.


132 posted on 03/31/2021 9:51:43 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: usconservative

“So Gaetz provided flights and hotel rooms for a 17 year old he wasn’t “dating”? I’m sorry, this stinks to high heaven. Gaetz is hiding something. He’s not telling the full truth.”

So you’re agitated and upset that Gaetz was accused of providing travel expenses for a fictional girl and you think that stinks and you want Gaetz to be drawn and quartered and his parts spread around the land so the leftists can celebrate murdering him?

YOU’RE HIDING SOMETHING!!!! I bet YOU feel guilty about some hideous crime against an underage girl and you’re just desperately trying to divert attention to someone else so no one suspects that you could be involved with the Clinton-Epstein child sex trafficking cabal!!!

THESE ARE SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS AGANIST YOU AND THEY MUST BE REPEATED IN THE MEDIA AND WE MUST DEMAND A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO YOUR POSSIBLE CRIMES!!!!

# # #

Okay, see how you feel now? Now imagine how Gaetz feels with the Democrats persecuting him in the media.

Is it fair what I did here? No.

Is it fair to do it to Rep. Gaetz? No.

Here endeth the lesson.


133 posted on 03/31/2021 9:57:40 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: usconservative

wow. you’re an idiot.


134 posted on 03/31/2021 10:50:25 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Yaelle

why wouldn’t you make the effort to expose a blackmailer? I certainly would.


135 posted on 03/31/2021 10:56:46 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
file under "New York Slimes" and "lawfare".

136 posted on 03/31/2021 11:54:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: caww

The dirty FBI/DOJ are out for blood against rat enemies, so I expect a similar furball to erupt in the direction of another strong and popular Trump supporter, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.


137 posted on 03/31/2021 1:46:23 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

The lawyer [part of a Pensacola law firm which, if I’m not mistaken, is very tight with Democrats]... was trying to extort money from Gaetz’s family, not from Gaetz himself, in the hope that the extortionist could get the family to believe something Gaetz himself would know wasn’t true and try to buy the lawyer’s silence to protect the family reputation. Part of the extortion may have been that the family had to keep the details from Gaetz himself or the extortionist would release info or something bad could happen to Gaetz or his fiance. Sounds like his Dad didn’t buy into what the extortionist was claiming to have on Gaetz, and went to the FBI.


138 posted on 03/31/2021 1:50:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Yaelle

The extortion was of Gaetz’s family —indirect, not just with him. The extortionist probably didn’t want Gaetz to know because Gaetz would know if the material was true or not, so the extortionist extorted Gaetz’s father secretly behind Gaetz’s back.

Why else would an extortionist go to the family rather than speak to the target directly?


139 posted on 03/31/2021 1:56:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

I was wondering where the $25 million extortion plot came from since Matt Gaetz has a net worth of only $500K or so. Then I read that his father Don Gaetz has a net worth of $30 million. So, this does seem like extortion against the father, I doubt there is much truth to the allegations. Likely there is some “adult” female 18+ in the picture, but no one underage.


140 posted on 03/31/2021 2:59:45 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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