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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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To: lodi90

I am not interested in going after conservatives for anything ever again. Not until we get some of these absoljte traitor demon democrats thrown into jail forever or executed. Done! This is war.


41 posted on 03/30/2021 7:21:41 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: hsmomx3

It seems like a week. i take notes and would have to go back and check the exact day.


42 posted on 03/30/2021 7:22:29 PM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Phillyred

“I am not interested in going after conservatives for anything ever again. Not until we get some of these absoljte traitor demon democrats thrown into jail forever or executed. Done! This is war.”

But if we don’t help get rid of conservatives and RINOs, how are we going to have the votes in Congress to get anything done?

(Lin Wood reasoning)


43 posted on 03/30/2021 7:24:39 PM PDT by BobL
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To: conservative98

It seems Dad better be all over the airways first thing in the morning to back up the extortion claims.


44 posted on 03/30/2021 7:27:28 PM PDT by Oystir
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To: conservative98

People get so passionately invested in political personalities - left and right - it often times gives them unhealthy blinders. As someone who has had the misfortune of working in DC and spending too much time on The Hill, I’m NEVER shocked when I hear salacious stories of sexual misconduct committed by politicians. Why? They’re a horrible, entitled and unbelievably egotistical lot.

The only thing wrong with the show ‘House of Cards’ is it wasn’t debased enough. These people are freaks.

I think when a story like this breaks the best way to evaluate it is with caution and circumspection. Could the NY Times be lying? Yep. Could the FBI being acting out in a fit of political payback? No doubt. Could Gaetz be lying. Unfortunately, yes.

Could they all be dissembling to some degree or another? Certainly. There is no rational, logical way to reach any conclusion with the extremely limited amount of information we currently have. As Carlson said, it was one of the strangest interviews he’s ever done. Gaetz could be wholly innocent and that could still be true and accurate.


45 posted on 03/30/2021 7:31:25 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: conservative98

DOJ / FIB can’t stop a shooter on their watch list over and over and over again while killing people who did nothing more than traffic violations. They are the muscle of the DS. F’ck em. I ain’t buying it. They are dirty to the core!!!!


46 posted on 03/30/2021 7:33:49 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent. )
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To: conservative98

Does he have $25 million?


47 posted on 03/30/2021 7:39:05 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Phillyred

Exactly. The FIB sat on Humper Biden’s child sex abuse crimes for over a year. I’m not going to cast stones at one of our political soldiers on some Mann Act nonsense or whatever while the deep state has a blank check to assault us. This is a war and only one side is fighting.


48 posted on 03/30/2021 7:39:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: conservative98

The DOJ and FIB are criminal organizations. A combination of the KGB and STASI. They are not a Patriotic organizations anymore, if they ever were.

The CIA is worse.


49 posted on 03/30/2021 7:45:46 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: usconservative

From your about page here:

“I’ve seen alot of crap on here. But what really takes the cake for me is when Conservatives “turn on each other” unnecessarily”

Hypocrisy much?


50 posted on 03/30/2021 7:47:29 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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This is allegedly the case that got this entire investigation started...

Former Seminole Tax Collector Joel Greenberg facing sex trafficking charges

Joel Greenberg is facing sex trafficking charges related to a girl between the ages of 14 and 17 and is also accused of illegally using a state database to look up information about the girl and other people with whom he was engaged in “sugar daddy” relationships, according to an indictment filed Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s office.

All this happened on or around 2017. Greenburg is a friend of Gaetz. How close a friend? Unknown and none of the stories at the Orlando Sentinel offer much in the way of proof, other than a picture of the two with Roger Stone (weirdly). It could be simply a case of guilt by association to score political points. Gaetz was a vocal critic of Eric Swalwell. Or, it could be something else.

51 posted on 03/30/2021 7:50:27 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: isthisnickcool

The sale to Roto Rooter left Don Gaetz with a net worth of $25 million.


52 posted on 03/30/2021 7:53:51 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: hsmomx3

The elite want sophisticated people around them.
Sophisticated: stuck up, condescending, can lie like the best of them, pretend to be someone you are not, don’t waste time on the people.. peons.. they are ignorant..crave power. and dress smartly with a nice crease in your pants.

Trump was not their buddy and he cared too much... get rid of him..he makes the rest of us look different.. bad .. we are the royalty...we can insult him ....and ruin him.

but TRUMP DIDN’T PUT UP WITH THEIR CRAPOLA! and they went after him with a vengeance... but it isn’t finished yet.


53 posted on 03/30/2021 7:54:11 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: usafa92

“Gaetz is saying that the person or persons he was provding travel and hotel rooms for is not the 17 year old, but someone else.”

Correct and legal is legal.


54 posted on 03/30/2021 7:54:44 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: ScubaDiver

Think back to how strange the initial stories/set up of General Flynn sounded.


55 posted on 03/30/2021 7:55:10 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: conservative98

Gaetz earned his fortune while working as a healthcare executive and founder of VITAS Healthcare Corporation which was sold to Roto Rooter in 2004 for $400 million. The sale to Roto Rooter left Don Gaetz with a net worth of $25 million.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/don-gaetz-net-worth/?amp=1


56 posted on 03/30/2021 7:55:50 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: jeffersondem
f course they're going after Gaetz.....that's what they do to anyone who stands firmly against what they're doing.....
58 posted on 03/30/2021 8:01:51 PM PDT by caww (..."Lawlessness will abound"....Matt: 24:12)
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To: usconservative

Tucked said it was the weirdest interview he ever gave. Lol. That’s saying a lot considering who he’s interviewed.


59 posted on 03/30/2021 8:08:57 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: af_vet_1981
Rather, it seems that Rep. Gaetz is unmarried, and it reads as if he provided flights and hotel rooms for an adult woman he was dating.

How do you get from there to someone thinking they can get $4.5M as an extortion payoff?

Why not just ignore the blackmailer?

60 posted on 03/30/2021 8:18:30 PM PDT by semimojo
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