Woman told ethics panel that Matt Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17 — as bipartisan calls grow to release House report

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 03:20:48 | Updated at 2024-11-15 06:09:31 3 hours ago

Woman told ethics panel that Matt Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17 — as bipartisan calls grow to release House report
The New York Post ^ | 11/14/2024 | Victor Nava

Posted on 11/14/2024 7:00:41 PM PST by thegagline

The key figure in a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics Committee that the former congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old, according to a report.

The woman, who is now in her 20s, was subpoenaed by the ethics panel over the summer and testified that Gaetz had sex with her when she was a minor and still in high school, ABC News reported on Thursday.

The Florida Republican vehemently denied the allegations.

“These allegations are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress,” Gaetz said in a statement provided to The Post. “This false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.”

DOJ informed Gaetz last year that it would not bring charges against him related to the probe, but the House Ethics Committee has been running a separate investigation into the former congressman, who abruptly resigned from Congress Wednesday after being nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as attorney general.

*** The ethics committee was reportedly set to vote Friday on whether to release its findings in the Gaetz probe, according to Punchbowl News.

Sources told ABC News that the ethics panel conducted interviews with at least six women who allegedly partied with Gaetz and were paid by his former friend, Joel Greenberg.

Greenberg, a former local tax official in Florida, pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, including sex trafficking, in May of 2021.

As part of the plea deal, Greenberg admitted that he recruited women for commercial sex acts and paid them more than $70,000 from 2016 to 2018, including at least one underage girl – who was the woman who told the ethics panel that Gaetz had sex with her as a minor, ABC News reported. ***

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: closeddoor; pleadeal; sanctity; starchamber

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And just like clockwork, the confidential Ethics Committee Report is being leaked which is…..UNETHICAL.

1 posted on 11/14/2024 7:00:41 PM PST by thegagline

To: thegagline

Yet he was never charged with anything

To: thegagline

FAKE NEWS.

Old charges. Baseless.

Don’t think he’d already be UNDER the jail if there were proof?

We got the right AG if this is all they have - old fake news.

3 posted on 11/14/2024 7:02:01 PM PST by TigerClaws

To: thegagline

Is her first name Stormy?

4 posted on 11/14/2024 7:02:04 PM PST by Paladin2

To: thegagline

FBI looked into it and dismissed the claims. Remember Kavanaugh. Both the GOP-E and the Dems are more then willing to use this sort of smear job

5 posted on 11/14/2024 7:02:12 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)

To: thegagline

We know very well that Dems can get a woman to say anything.

6 posted on 11/14/2024 7:02:37 PM PST by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)

To: thegagline

7 posted on 11/14/2024 7:03:56 PM PST by madison10

To: thegagline

What happened to all the Epstein videos?

8 posted on 11/14/2024 7:04:14 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)

To: thegagline

>> The woman, who is now in her 20s, was subpoenaed by the ethics panel over the summer and testified that Gaetz had sex with her when she was a minor and still in high school, ABC News reported on Thursday.

Was she cross-examined in that hearing?

(Of course we know the answer.)

9 posted on 11/14/2024 7:05:03 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)

To: thegagline

The Republican that runs the Ethics Committee is after Gaetz.

The same Republican voted for the Jan 6th commission and decided not to Investigate Maxine Waters, the Fire Alarm puller, the woman that married her Brother, and all the hundreds of Millions Dems spent to make Sexual assault accusers go away.

The Republicans in the Senate put RINO Thune there for a reason.

10 posted on 11/14/2024 7:05:50 PM PST by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)

To: thegagline

11 posted on 11/14/2024 7:06:42 PM PST by Paladin2

To: Sarah Barracuda

Because it’s all Bs.

Seriously, the witness is a literal prostitute.

By definition, she basically does anything for money.

I’m thinking she’s pretty easy to get to lie so she gets a book deal.

12 posted on 11/14/2024 7:06:46 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)

To: thegagline

Cant charge him?

Smear him!

Its the dem way

13 posted on 11/14/2024 7:07:04 PM PST by joshua c

To: thegagline

So pimp gets reduced sentence for accusing politician. Nothing shady here.../s

14 posted on 11/14/2024 7:07:45 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)

To: OakOak

Thune hoards FEMA trailers. Philipe told me.

15 posted on 11/14/2024 7:08:22 PM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)

To: thegagline

Typical leftist tactics...

“You vill say vut ve vant to hear or you vill be ruined.”

How is a young girl going to counter the slimy tactics of a so called Ethics Commission?

Brilliant lawyers and staunch conservatives have tried, And failed.

16 posted on 11/14/2024 7:08:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)

To: thegagline

17 posted on 11/14/2024 7:10:03 PM PST by Mr. Blond

To: thegagline

The D party bosses are up to their same old unethical tricks. Like the old dogs they mostly are, they never seem to learn anything new.

18 posted on 11/14/2024 7:10:06 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))

To: thegagline

Yeah. Sure. Show me the evidence. And if it’s nothing more than her testimony, this is a farce.

19 posted on 11/14/2024 7:11:15 PM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)

To: thegagline

I feel compelled to observe that not too many men can actually detect any difference between a seventeen year old girl who has been around the block a few times and an eighteen year old girl, certainly when they are around a Congressman who they perceive has power and influence.

However, a seventeen year old girl is definitely not a minor. That is some kind of fiction somebody started somewhere for personal advantage, probably in a court case. Historically speaking, seventeen year old girls have been considered of prime marriage age.

You would think that Gaetz is lobbying to desex some ten year old boy, or cut off the breasts of a twelve year old girl, or trying to allow boys to poke around in the girls’ locker room.

20 posted on 11/14/2024 7:14:00 PM PST by odawg

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