House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report

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Matt Gaetz Committee Report

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18 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Matt Gaetz Committee Report

Almost our AG. Think about that for a minute.

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Matt Gaetz is a focking creep, sorry but interacting with teenage girls is a bridge too far and it’s good that Trump ditched him.

That said, there are a few Matt Gaetz moments that were genuinely funny. Calling out Kevin McCarthy at the RNC (“when are you speaking?” ), talking to AOC in the house chamber, and wearing the gas mask at the onset of COVID were all pretty hilarious. 

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On 1/1/2025 at 1:01 PM, Mike Honcho said:

Matt Gaetz Committee Report

37 f'n pages!  I'm not reading that.  Cliff notes?

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Just now, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

37 f'n pages!  I'm not reading that.  Cliff notes?

Baby diddler.

[Alias Detective 1,460]

Hookers and blow.  Likely 50% of DC is just as guilty.

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1 minute ago, Alias Detective said:

Hookers and blow.  

Attorney General material!

[SaintsInDome2006 665]

How Matt Gaetz became enmeshed with a 17 year old girl

A 17-year-old with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men. She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.

 

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter.

Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money.

What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.

Mr. Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. Following the election last year, he was President Trump’s first choice to serve as attorney general. He subsequently resigned from Congress, and then withdrew from consideration as attorney general under a storm of scrutiny.….

Last month, in response to a request from the McClatchy newspaper chain, a federal judge in Florida unsealed court documents from a related civil case that shed some light on her background. The documents included a description of the girl that said that at the time she met Mr. Gaetz she was “a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”

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According to her lawyer, the girl’s path to meeting Mr. Gaetz began during her junior year in high school. In December 2016, she turned 17. Her parents were divorced. One of them was so poor that the parent was living in and out of a homeless shelter. When the girl and her siblings were staying with that parent, they lived with the parent in the shelter.

To make extra money, the girl worked at McDonald’s. But she began looking for other ways to make money and turned to a website that “advertised itself as a ‘sugar dating’ website that primarily connected older men and younger women seeking ‘mutually beneficial relationships,’” according to the report by the House Ethics Committee.

Through the website, in April of her junior year in high school, she met Joel Greenberg, a local Florida tax collector who was becoming a friend and ally of Mr. Gaetz, according to court documents.

Much of what followed has been documented in other inquiries and legal proceedings, including the Ethics Committee investigation.

Mr. Greenberg first invited the 17-year-old to a meeting on his boat, according to court documents. At that meeting, they did not have sex, but Mr. Greenberg paid her $400, the documents said. Around that time, Mr. Greenberg gave her ecstasy and told her to try it at home.

 

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Greenberg contacted the girl again, and they ultimately met up at a hotel where they had sex, according to court documents. For that, she was paid another $400, the court documents said. In the months that followed, Mr. Greenberg, using his personal credit card and one for the local tax collecting office he was in charge of, would have sex with her seven times for money before she turned 18, the documents said. Often during those encounters he would give her ecstasy, and he would often pay the girl and other women additional money for taking the drug during sex.

On July 15, 2017, Mr. Greenberg asked the girl and others to attend a party at the home of Chris Dorworth, a former Republican member of the Florida state House of Representatives who at the time worked as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, which is run by a major Trump fund-raiser.

Court documents described the party as involving “alcohol; cocaine; middle-aged men; and young attractive females.”

Mr. Gaetz, then 35, attended the party along with a girlfriend.

At the party, the girl who was 17 later testified, both cocaine and ecstasy were offered to her. She took the ecstasy and drank, according to court papers. She testified that she danced naked in front of Mr. Dorworth and swam naked in his pool.

The ethics committee heard testimony that the girl twice had sex with Mr. Gaetz that evening, and a court document quotes her as having testified that she had sex with him once on a “pool table or … air hockey table.” She testified that Mr. Dorworth saw Mr. Gaetz have sex with her on the game table and “then laughed about it with other partygoers.” (Mr. Dorworth has claimed that he was not home at the time, an assertion undercut by phone records that became part of litigation in the case.)

The girl later told congressional investigators that she saw Mr. Gaetz use cocaine that night.

For having sex with him twice, the girl was paid $400, according to testimony she gave to the Ethics Committee.

That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.<<

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Seems farcical.  NYT isn’t exactly known for journalistic integrity these days.  

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4 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Seems farcical.  NYT isn’t exactly known for journalistic integrity these days.  

If there was ever someone straight out of central casting for a pedo with underage girls it’s this guy

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I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

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1 minute ago, HellToupee said:

I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

She said she wanted the money for braces…eeesh.

This guy was Donald’s pick for AG

Think about how insane that is.

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8 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

She said she wanted the money for braces…eeesh.

This guy was Donald’s pick for AG

Think about how insane that is.

You support a party that has child trafficking in its platform.  Pipe down.  

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14 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

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1 minute ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

You support a party that has child trafficking in its platform.  Pipe down.  

Not good timing for you to be running this out there

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13 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

Careful now. If this post is construed the wrong way @Strike may hold against you for the next 20 years or so. 

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14 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

She said she wanted the money for braces…eeesh.

This guy was Donald’s pick for AG

Think about how insane that is.

Adults have several braces options, including traditional metal braces for effectiveness, clear or ceramic braces for discretion, and clear aligners (like Invisalign) for removability

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Just now, HellToupee said:

Adults have several braces options, including traditional metal braces for effectiveness, clear or ceramic braces for discretion, and clear aligners (like Invisalign) for removability

That she also asked for her “Teen Vogue” sub to be renewed might have also been a red flag.

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It’s really dark stuff. A teenager, homeless, working min wage, wanting braces. Plied with drugs, booze, pressure from powerful people, paid mere hundreds of dollars. 

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2 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

It’s really dark stuff. A teenager, homeless, working min wage, wanting braces. Plied with drugs, booze, pressure from powerful people, paid mere hundreds of dollars. 

According to HT as long as she said she's 18 then it's fair game.

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On 1/1/2025 at 1:20 PM, Fnord said:

Almost our AG. Think about that for a minute.

It really is. Starting to make even more sense why Don would pick this creeper to be his AG.

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18 hours ago, HellToupee said:

I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

Given what is already public record re: Gaetz, I will default to not believing him unless shown otherwise with real evidence.

Man, the people you choose to defend...

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18 hours ago, HellToupee said:

I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker…and, he claims it never happened so who is telling the truth??

 

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Matt Gaetz sent over $10K in Venmo payments to 2 women who testified in House probe, records suggest

WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee obtained records, including a check and records of Venmo payments, that appear to show that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes conducted by both the House and the Justice Department, according to documents obtained by ABC News.

The Venmo records show that between July 2017 and late January 2019, Gaetz -- who was first elected in 2016 -- allegedly made 27 Venmo payments totaling $10,224.02 to the two witnesses, who were over the age of 18 at the time.

The payments, which sources said were displayed during closed-door testimony, ranged from $100 to more than $700 each.

 

One was the 17 year alleged earlier he had sex with, just paid her via Venmo after she turned 18.  But you might be right, it was probably just to help with getting braces.  

 

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16 minutes ago, Fnord said:

Given what is already public record re: Gaetz, I will default to not believing him unless shown otherwise with real evidence.

Man, the people you choose to defend...

Posting “I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker “  isn’t defending him. . Said I’m not a fan , called him a pos. He entered into an unsavory transaction 

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7 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Posting “I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker “  isn’t defending him. . Said I’m not a fan , called him a pos. He entered into an unsavory transaction 

Fair enough. In my defense, though, you've defended plenty of your Father's "unsavory transactions" so please excuse me for getting my wires crossed.

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11 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Posting “I am no fan of Matt Gaetz BUT, if a person advertises on a web site and says she is 18 the person paying her may still be a POS but not sure he is a sex trafficker “  isn’t defending him. . Said I’m not a fan , called him a pos. He entered into an unsavory transaction 

Man, if you can't trust a hooker who advertises on a website, who can you trus?.  

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1 minute ago, Mike Honcho said:

Man, if you can't trust a hooker who advertises on a website, who can you trus?.  

Exactly. Who would of thunk it