Republican Intercourse Scandal Week continues as a brand new courtroom submitting particulars occasions associated to the continuing intercourse trafficking allegations surrounding Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. The late-Thursday night time federal submitting references sealed eyewitness statements that describe a highschool junior attending a celebration in a house laden with medicine, the place Gaetz and different adults got here collectively for intercourse.
As NOTUS stories, Gaetz has constantly claimed he was not on the July 2017 occasion, however testimony from his personal ex-girlfriend rebuts that declare. The witnesses cite the presence of “alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy … and marijuana” and ensure that these current have been there to “engage in sexual activities.” Additionally they verify the presence of a 17-year-old woman who was “naked” on the occasion.
The occasion occurred on the house of lobbyist Chris Dorworth, a buddy of Gaetz. Cellular phone data present that Gaetz and Dorworth communicated “constantly” in the course of the day earlier than the occasion—together with some 30 textual content messages.
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Gaetz stays beneath investigation by the Home Ethics Committee. The scandal started heating up once more earlier this month after Dorworth dropped a 2023 defamation swimsuit in opposition to Gaetz’s former affiliate Joel Greenberg. A confession letter from Greenberg, revealed by The Day by day Beast, detailed claims that each he and Gaetz had paid for intercourse with an underaged woman.
“From time to time, gas money or gifts, rent or partial tuition payments were made to several of these girls, including the individual who was not yet 18,” wrote Greenberg.
As The New Republic explains, Thursday’s submitting was a part of a Dorworth’s personal workforce’s effort to claw again attorneys’ charges from his dropped lawsuit.
Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in jail after pleading responsible to 6 federal fees— together with intercourse trafficking of a minor, stalking, identification theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official.
Gaetz has made no touch upon the courtroom paperwork as of this writing, however has repeatedly denied being concerned in intercourse trafficking or having intercourse with an underaged particular person.
