Embattled Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz isn’t doing too well lately. Even the Florida Republican’s latest fundraising effort has backfired, and he has few defenders on his side of the aisle, aside from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Jewish Space Lasers conspiracy theorist. Oh, and there is Rep. Jim Jordan, who has his own issues.
The MAGA Congressman’s close associate Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County, Florida tax commissioner, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to reduce his criminal case, so that’s not good news for Gaetz. Greenberg has been helping investigators in their sprawling investigation that includes a sex trafficking probe. And some witnesses have said that Gaetz snorted cocaine and had sex with an escort who was paid with campaign money.
Tristan Snell, who headed the prosecution of Trump University, tweeted out some advice for Gaetz.
“They’re not bluffing,” Snell tweeted. “Take the deal.”
Dear Matt Gaetz:
They’re not bluffing. Take the deal.
Very truly yours,
Tristan Snell
(former NY AAG who prosecuted Trump University)— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) August 11, 2021
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Snell seems to be under the impression that Gaetz has been offered a deal. Lawyers, including Snell, eventually filed three separate lawsuits from 2010 to 2013 against Trump University for, among other claims, “deceptive practices.” In the end, Donald Trump had agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to the people who attended Trump University. It was a scam university, much like Trump’s scam presidency.
As for Gaetz, he is being investigated for multiple things, including that the Department of Justice is investigating the attention-seeking MAGA congressman over whether he had illicit “encounters” with a 17-year-old girl about two years ago. And it gets worse for Gaetz. According to what the New York Times reported when the story broke, three people briefed on the matter said that federal investigators are looking into whether Gaetz paid for the teenager to travel over state lines, which would be a violation of federal sex-trafficking laws. Gaetz’s reputation is in the shitter now, with venues canceling his events.
Maybe Gaetz’s attorney can advise him.
Gaetz’s recent filing shows that he paid 25,000 to attorney Marc French, who lists among his “notable clients” the accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, and convicted crime family boss John “Junior” Gotti.”
Ohhhh.
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