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Documents Detail Alleged ‘Hostage Release’ Scheme to Extort Gaetz PLOT TWIST
Daily Beast ^ | Updated Mar. 31, 2021 7:29PM ET | Tracy Connor Roger Sollenberger Adam Rawnsley

Posted on 03/31/2021 6:17:38 PM PDT by conservative98

The material suggests that Gaetz’s father was told his son’s legal problems could go away if he gave $25 million to help secure the release of Iranian hostage Bob Levinson.

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The scandal swirling around Rep. Matt Gaetz took a stunning turn Wednesday with the news that a former Air Force intelligence official and a Florida lawyer tried to get the congressman’s dad to cough up $25 million that would be used to free American Bob Levinson from Iranian custody—and somehow release Gaetz from a federal sex-crimes investigation.

And if that wasn’t enough, here’s one more strange fact: Levinson was declared dead last year.

The Washington Examiner obtained a document that was allegedly presented to Don Gaetz by the ex-military official, Bob Kent, that laid out the purported scheme. The site also obtained an email sent to Don Gaetz’s lawyer by federal prosecutors that suggests they were looking into whether a crime was under way.

The document dubbed “Project Homecoming” stipulated that Gaetz would deposit money for Levinson’s ransom in an account connected to the firm of Florida lawyer David McGee, who has represented the Levinson family for years. Also named in the scheme: Stephen Alford, a convicted fraudster who McGee has represented—both in court and in business matters.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
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1 posted on 03/31/2021 6:17:38 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Exposing the plot to use lies to extort my family. via @thedailybeast https://t.co/1VF7oVOYQq— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 1, 2021


2 posted on 03/31/2021 6:19:21 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

More money solicited for Obama’s Iranian slush fund to rig elections.


3 posted on 03/31/2021 6:22:44 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: conservative98

All politicians should come forward with the way they’ve been threatened, bribed, blackmailed and extorted. It would be cathartic.


4 posted on 03/31/2021 6:25:44 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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Ahhhh....The other shoe.

“Tracy Connor Roger Sollenberger Adam Rawnsley”

A confused transgender author? Punctuation leads to clarity.

5 posted on 03/31/2021 6:25:50 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ("Our lawyers just want you to know that this is not real.")
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To: Betty Jane

Explains why they allowed the election to be stolen right in front of everybody’s eyes.


6 posted on 03/31/2021 6:31:42 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: RBW in PA

I’ve seen Mitch look scared out of his mind when bashing Trump. Recall the one with the guy behind him flashing the illuminati hand gesture when Mitch looked his way. All our leaders are compromised and/or threatened. We are under domination.


7 posted on 03/31/2021 6:35:52 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: conservative98
When does Roberts come forward?

-PJ

8 posted on 03/31/2021 6:43:49 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...Gaetz’s father was told his son’s legal problems could go away if he gave $25 million to help secure the release of Iranian hostage Bob Levinson... Levinson was declared dead last year... The document dubbed “Project Homecoming” stipulated that Gaetz would deposit money for Levinson’s ransom in an account connected to the firm of Florida lawyer David McGee, who has represented the Levinson family for years. Also named in the scheme: Stephen Alford, a convicted fraudster who McGee has represented—both in court and in business matters.

9 posted on 04/01/2021 7:57:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: conservative98
The Washington Examiner obtained a document that was allegedly presented to Don Gaetz by the ex-military official, Bob Kent, that laid out the purported scheme.

No good grifter would put an illegal act in writing.

“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink”.

10 posted on 04/02/2021 8:07:01 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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The Washington Examiner obtained a document

This is TOO strange. The only thing the document can do is implicate someone in an illegal scheme.

Maybe the DOJ was trying to entrap the Gaetzs, the Gaetzs notified the FBI, and the FBI trapped the DOJ.

Everyone will throw their hands up and say: "No harm, no foul!"

11 posted on 04/02/2021 8:10:45 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Dr. Franklin

...In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.——Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch
The sHill ^ | 5/14/18 | John Solomon

“...the terms of Levinson’s release had been agreed to by Iran and the U.S. and included a statement by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointing a finger away from Iran. At the last minute Secretary Clinton decided not to make the agreed-on statement.”——Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch
The sHill ^ | 5/14/18 | John Solomon


12 posted on 04/03/2021 12:28:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks!


13 posted on 04/03/2021 12:34:56 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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