Matt Gaetz’s Day Just Got Worse After Report Claims He Was Once Caught On Surveillance Video With Alleged Sex Trafficker Sifting Through IDs

Lordy, there's a video.


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The Department of Justice is investigating Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-MAGA) over an alleged inappropriate relationship with a minor and a possible violation of sex trafficking laws. The Florida Republican is being accused of being involved with and possibly paying the 17-year-old girl to travel with him — making that a sex trafficking violation. Accusations of drug abuse and a highly inappropriate sex competition where you make extra points for sleeping with virgins are surfacing. The more you go down Gaetz’s rabbit hole, the more disgusting it gets.

A report came out saying that Gaetz’s friend, the former Seminole County tax collector and now alleged sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, is turning on him to the feds. And now, CNN reports that an employee at the tax collector’s office once saw Greenberg and Gaetz on an internal surveillance video, looking through driver licenses on a weekend evening.

Lordy, there are texts, too.

‘In a text message exchange shared with CNN that the source said was between Greenberg and the employee, Greenberg confirmed he was in the office “showing congressman Gaetz what our operation looked like,”‘ the report states. “That witness shared the information with prosecutors from the local US attorney’s office and US Secret Service agents investigating Greenberg’s case in January 2020, the person familiar with the matter said.”

“As the head of the tax collector’s office, Greenberg had access to driver licenses that people would surrender to the office. According to court documents in his case, Greenberg allegedly used surrendered licenses to create fake IDs,” CNN reports.

“In an August indictment, federal prosecutors accused Greenberg of unlawfully accessing a motor vehicle database to obtain and use the personal information of people including some who Greenberg “was engaged in ‘sugar daddy’ relationships” with,” the report continues. “He is also accused of sex trafficking a child between the ages of 14 and 17 years old and unlawfully obtaining the photograph and driver identification number of that child.”

“The two people familiar with the matter said the congressman’s weekend visit to the office took place in 2019,” the report adds.

You can read the full report here.

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