Documents Detail Wild Alleged $25M Gaetz Extortion Scheme
TYLER DURDEN, 31 March 2021
Rep. Matt Gaetz possesses text message screenshots, an email, and a typed document that purportedly support his claims that a federal investigation into his relationship with a 17-year-old is related to an extortion scheme against him.
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department is investigating whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid her to travel with him. Gaetz has called the report “totally false.” Gaetz told Axios that his lawyers told him that he “was not a target but a subject of an investigation regarding sexual conduct with women.”
The Florida Republican countered the report on Twitter and in statements to Axios and Fox News with a claim that his family is being extorted for $25 million and that the people pushing stories about an investigation into his relationships with women are the people extorting him and the subjects of an FBI extortion investigation over the last few weeks. Continue reading “Article: Documents Detail Wild Alleged $25M Gaetz Extortion Scheme”
Jacob A. Goldberg is a partner in The Rosen Law Firm. He graduated from Temple University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 1992 and Columbia University, Columbia College, 1988. His practice areas are General Securities and Commercial Litigation. His bar and court admissions are: 