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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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141 posted on 03/31/2021 3:05:59 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: MeganC

You’ve just added a fan!


142 posted on 03/31/2021 4:39:27 PM PDT by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: usconservative

What two sides? You were mistaken in thinking he admitted to being with a 17 year old.


143 posted on 03/31/2021 5:21:07 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: usconservative

Is that you, Thomas Friedman?

What part of “there is no 17-year-old” are you unable to grasp? Tell us what is illegal or untoward about a single guy paying for the travel of an adult female he’s dating?


144 posted on 03/31/2021 6:22:18 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Who is John Galt?

In general, ignorance of the girl’s age is not a defense to statutory-rape laws. But presumably Gaetz would be prosecuted under the federal Mann Act (transporting females across state lines for illicit sex), and I guess that it’s possible that there could be a mens rea defense to the federal charge (even if there would not be one under the underlying crime).

Gaetz claims that there is no 17-year-old girl, and that he paid for a flight fir someone of legal age. If the girl was 18 and the age of consent in all states in which she traveled was 18 or less, then the feds have no case. I just hope that his answer was straightforward and not Clintonesque, because if the girl was 17 when he “dated” her and he says “well, yes, she was 17 back then, but she turned 18 the day before I said “there is no 17-year-old girl,” so it depends on what the definition of “is” is,” then I’ll never forgive him.


145 posted on 04/01/2021 12:59:12 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: conservative98

Russia Russia Russia


146 posted on 04/01/2021 2:33:08 PM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I prefer “occupation” to “regime”. There is nothing legit about Biden sitting in Trumps office.


147 posted on 04/01/2021 3:02:31 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: conservative98

I’ll call it right here.

This guy is a **scumbag** and a pervert. I see right through him and his college frat boy gas mask. He’s going away for a very lonnnnng time once he’s convicted. Needless to say his phony three year engagement will collapse like a house of cards as well. We need to purge the GOP of these kinds of grandstanding jetsam and flotsam red meat tossing populist demogogues for good and return it to the decency it generally had before.


148 posted on 04/01/2021 3:39:55 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo ( )
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To: Psalm 73

Bingo!

The US is a fully fledged Banana Republic.


149 posted on 04/01/2021 10:07:03 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: usconservative

“Gaetz is hiding something. He’s not telling the full truth.”

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Your reading comprehension is lacking - try again:

“”The Florida Republican told Carlson that the 17-year-old in question “doesn’t exist”, and that “providing for flights and hotel rooms for people that you’re dating who are of legal age is not a crime.””


150 posted on 04/02/2021 4:19:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: jacknhoo
Right. And now there are reports he was showing nude pictures on his phone to fellow Congressmen bragging about his having sex with them or wanting to have sex with them.

Give it a rest already.

151 posted on 04/02/2021 4:29:18 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

LOL, you’re a piece of work. You can’t comprehend what you read and to cover for your blatant lack of skill you cite a completely different incident.

You should just go back to sleep.


152 posted on 04/02/2021 4:32:42 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: jacknhoo

And you aren’t paying attention are you? I’m done with you.


153 posted on 04/02/2021 4:55:49 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

“And you aren’t paying attention are you?”

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I absolutely am paying attention. For instance, you were wrong and are too pig-headed to acknowledge your error, so you deflected.

Now, you’re done with me, sleepy head.


154 posted on 04/02/2021 5:07:57 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: conservative98

mark for later


155 posted on 04/02/2021 5:18:35 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: Psalm 73
WHERE'S HUNTER?
156 posted on 04/02/2021 10:01:15 AM PDT by rhubarbk
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To: usconservative

You are correct—-he’s not telling the truth—-the only thing he,’s claiming as truth is that there was an attempt to extort his family for 25 million...if he does in fact have a tape of that, then that’s the truth. I tend to think he was with a 17 year old who he was probably “dating “ (clears throat)So the real issue would be, what part of the story being “true” outweighs the other part,and does it stall Gaetz’s ascent if he can’t prove the 17 year old doesn’t exist?


157 posted on 04/02/2021 12:05:17 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: supremedoctrine

I recant my statement....missed one important line from Gaetz
Let’s see what McGee has to say.


158 posted on 04/02/2021 12:18:38 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Persevero
It is sad to me that providing transportation and flights to an adult woman he was dating is now the moral refuge.

Ban travel reservations; that's the ticket ...

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.

Jumped a fence there, providing transportation and flights to an adult woman he was dating /= any Biblical definition of fornication; lots of fornication going on in the world, especially through pornography, and grave sins kill the soul that does not repent and turn around.

Perhaps the last two generations are gravely depraved, especially in the formerly evangelized nations of the West.

With the Biden cabinet appointees' public immorality and depravity a sign of the normalization of the moral disorder in the United States, nothing should shock us, just grieve us and cry to heaven for judgement.
159 posted on 04/03/2021 4:22:03 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981

I guess you want me to believe that he was providing flights and hotels for girlfriend(s) and not fornicating. While possible I am not that naive.

Yes I know Biden and crew are worse.

I am just remarking on how far our moral standards have fallen, as a nation. “I was fornicating with a willing adult” would not have made a good defense forty years ago; and this man is a conservative, at least mostly.


160 posted on 04/03/2021 4:58:11 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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