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Frater I*I wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:41 pm

RVInit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:36 pm Matt Gaetz will win his next election as long as he is not actually incarcerated

Nothing about being in prison will prevent him from running, James Traficant ran for his seat as a 3rd party. Seeing how insane the GQP has become, I can see this scumbag running as an R, winning, and serving his term while in prison...

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:46 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:41 pm

RVInit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:36 pm Matt Gaetz will win his next election as long as he is not actually incarcerated

Nothing about being in prison will prevent him from running, James Traficant ran for his seat as a 3rd party. Seeing how insane the GQP has become, I can see this scumbag running as an R, winning, and serving his term while in prison...

If the R’s want to throw away a seat by electing someone who can’t show up to vote, let ‘em.

Last Updated Apr 7, 2021 7:05 PM EDT

Federal investigators are looking into a Bahamas trip Matt Gaetz allegedly took in late 2018 or early 2019 as part of an inquiry into whether the Florida representative violated sex trafficking laws, multiple sources told CBS News.

Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts, the sources said.

Investigators are trying to determine if the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or international lines for the purpose of sex with the congressman.

"Traveling across state lines is what creates a federal hook for a prosecution," Arlo Devlin-Brown, a former prosecutor and partner at Covington & Burling, said in a report that aired on the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell." "It doesn't matter that [Gaetz] personally paid them as long as he knows someone is doing that."

The Justice Department declined to comment. Pirozollo did not respond to repeated attempts to contact him, and declined to comment on his relationship with Gaetz and whether he paid for escorts for him when asked by CBS News on Wednesday outside his office in Orlando.

filly wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:50 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:38 pm Haven't seen a linky yet, but MSNBC reported Gaetz pal Greenburg (that the name?) just got hit with new indictments.

Do we have a flip emoji?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz ... urces-say/]

The plea by Joel Greenberg could significantly strengthen the Justice Department's hand as it investigates Matt Gaetz and others who met Greenberg through Florida Republican politics and are being scrutinized on potential sex trafficking violations.

keith wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:35 am

Chilidog wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:13 am

Gregg wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:38 pm.

But while we're here, Twitter is suddenly abuzz that Trump granted Gaetz a "Secret Pardon" and any day now Matt is gonna whip it out. Some lawyer tell me that a pardon can only be secret until its accepted, and then someone has to file some paperwork somewhere to be effective... and further, if your Daddy leaves office before that paper gets filed, the Pardon doesn't exist anymore than the Almost Federal Judges in Marbury v. Madison commissions.

The problem with that theory is obvious.

Since when has Trump been able to keep a secret?

Also, the thing that always gets forgotton about: acceptance of a pardon is equal to admission of guilt.

The prosecutor, Roger Handberg, made the disclosure about Mr. Greenberg’s case at a six-minute status hearing at the federal courthouse in Orlando, as did Mr. Greenberg’s lawyer, Fritz Scheller. Mr. Greenberg had been scheduled to go on trial in June, but both sides set a May 15 deadline for a plea deal. If they do not reach an agreement, the case would go to trial, they agreed.


“We believe this case is going to be a plea,” Mr. Handberg said.

Added Mr. Scheller: “I expect this case to be resolved with a plea deal.”

Neither said whether Mr. Greenberg would agree to cooperate with the government’s open investigation. Mr. Greenberg, 36, is likely to face 12 years in prison and legal experts said that if Mr. Greenberg had any hope of reducing that sentence, he would have to cooperate with the Justice Department.

Cooperation in federal inquiries typically entails being fully candid in interviews with investigators and testifying at trials and before grand juries in related investigations. Those who cooperate early usually receive the best deals from prosecutors; no others are known to have been indicted in this case.

Mr. Greenberg did not appear in court on Thursday. He was sent to jail in March for violating the terms of his bail.

Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:12 pm

Does this work like it did with Mueller and his plea deals/potential deals? Guy comes in for the day and has to give everything up and be truthful? What did they call it? Queen for the day?

filly wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:35 pm Jeebus!

Chilidog wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:13 pm Line of the day



"Matt Gaetz is everything the Republicans wanted in Hunter Biden."