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It is not like it is Matt Gaetz or something

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8 ... rafficking

On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota released a statement announcing the arrest and indictment of 30-year-old Anton Lazzaro on sex trafficking charges. The charges include the allegation that Lazzaro recruited and conspired to recruit at least six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts between May 2020 and December 2020.

Lazzaro is the latest GOP operative to be arrested on charges of human trafficking, joining former elected county assessor for Maricopa County Paul Petersen, along with Florida’s own embarrassments, Rep. Matt Gaetz , and his buddy Joel Greenburg. Lazzaro was reportedly arrested this in Minneapolis and made his first appearance in court over video conference later in the day.

According to The Daily Beast, Lazzaro’s luxury condo was raided by the FBI in December 2020. Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records and video surveillance footage a week before the raid, according to a person with direct knowledge. The search warrant appears in federal court records but remains sealed. The prosecutors working on this case did not return phone calls seeking further detail.

The Republican Party has a long history of having members’ names thrown around in sex trafficking and human trafficking cases. Trump’s impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz has had his name come up in various court documents over the past decade in connection with known child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. Dershowitz has denied all accusations of impropriety. Coincidentally, Lazzaro made the claim that Dershowitz had been subcontracted by his lawyer to help with the case, but Dershowitz denied the connection to The Daily Beast.
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Re: It is not like it is Matt Gaetz or something

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woodworker wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:30 pm https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8 ... rafficking

Lazzaro is the latest GOP operative to be arrested on charges of human trafficking, joining former elected county assessor for Maricopa County Paul Petersen, along with Florida’s own embarrassments, Rep. Matt Gaetz , and his buddy Joel Greenburg. Lazzaro was reportedly arrested this in Minneapolis and made his first appearance in court over video conference later in the day.
Matt Gaetz has not been arrested on charges of human trafficking.
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Seriously, and I am well aware that child predators know no Party, but WTF is it with the apparent oversupply of GOP creepers??
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Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records
A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
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filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:52 am
Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records
A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
Maybe the warrant was for searching a storage locker? IDK.
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filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:52 am
Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records
A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
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Maybenaut wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:39 am
filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:52 am
Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records
A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
Maybe the warrant was for searching a storage locker? IDK.
I'm guessing that the actual banks would be a better and more complete source of the bank records. But hey, what do I know?
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filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:02 am
Maybenaut wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:39 am
filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:52 am

A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
Maybe the warrant was for searching a storage locker? IDK.
I'm guessing that the actual banks would be a better and more complete source of the bank records. But hey, what do I know?
I don’t know what they’re looking for in the bank records, but if they want to impute knowledge to him, a record in his possession might be better. Of course, I’m assuming they know what they’re looking for.
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Maybenaut wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:39 pm
filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:02 am
Maybenaut wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:39 am

Maybe the warrant was for searching a storage locker? IDK.
I'm guessing that the actual banks would be a better and more complete source of the bank records. But hey, what do I know?
I don’t know what they’re looking for in the bank records, but if they want to impute knowledge to him, a record in his possession might be better. Of course, I’m assuming they know what they’re looking for.
Used to be that bank statements got mailed and the rebuttable presumption was that the addressee received it. Maybe it's easier to rebut that presumption these days, but I'd guess it still exists.
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filly wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:52 am
Law enforcement served the condo building’s management company with a search warrant seeking Lazzaro’s bank records
A building management company is the custodian of bank records?
Maybe they were just asking for the transit routing and accounts on the checks, or registered account he used to pay his rent, and then planning to ask the bank for more complete records.
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This isn’t a civil case. Law enforcement has access to that kind of information. Maybe the DailKis writer made an error.
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