Matt Gaetz being investigated over sexual relationship with a 17 year old girl

Cuddles · Aug 21, 2021

gwb-trading said:
So let me get this straight... the 19-year-old woman who helped GOP strategist Lazarro groom underage girls was caught on the run from Minnesota in Florida, in Matt Gaetz's district. Added bonus - She is also the president of the College Republicans at her school.

Police Arrest Teen Accused of Helping GOP Strategist’s Underage Sex Trafficking
Shortly after arresting GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro for underage sex trafficking, police say they’ve caught up with his 19-year-old associate, who now faces the same charges.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/polic...ping-gop-strategists-underage-sex-trafficking
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whoa:

Spike Trader said:
Nothing to see here........ these kind of things only increases their popularity with the base.

'The party is in ruins': Minnesota GOP reeling as sex and money scandal consumes the leadership

According to a report from Politico, the Minnesota Republican Party is in absolute chaos after a sex scandal involving underage women has set off a chain reaction that cost the party's head her job amid accusations of financial improprieties and a toxic atmosphere which has led to more resignations.

As one former senior GOP official admitted, "I don't know if the party has hit rock bottom yet."

According to Politico's David Siders and Paul Demko, the arrest of GOP donor and activist Anton "Tony" Lazzaro on federal sex-trafficking charges led to the forced resignation of Jennifer Carnahan, head of the party which then opened up a flood of complaints about her stewardship.

"A pile-on ensued, with Carnahan, the wife of Republican U.S.Rep. Jim Hagedorn, accused by party officials and former staffers of running a toxic, retaliatory workplace, mismanaging party finances and, through the use of non-disclosure agreements, squashing transparency," the report states, adding, "... with Carnahan gone, Republicans are confronting what will likely be a monthslong slog of internal reviews and ongoing headlines about the saga — a drag on the party just over a year ahead of the midterm elections."

According to Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota GOP the "firestorm" that is engulfing the party has left it "in ruins."

State Sen. Julia Coleman (R) -- daughter of former U.S. Sen Norm Coleman(R) --was one of the first to call for Carnahan's ouster and she explained the damage the former GOP head, and her friend Lazzaro, left behind.

"When you have woman after woman after woman coming out and saying that they had an issue with abuse or sexual assault and that our chairwoman stifled their story, that's concerning to me," she lamented. "If I was a young woman recently graduating, I wouldn't want to come anywhere near the MN GOP."

According to Politico's Siders and Demko, the Republican Party in the state was already on its heels after Trump lost the state in 2020 -- where it was thought he had a chance -- to President Joe Biden by seven points.

The report notes, "...though Republicans flipped one rural congressional seat and maintained a majority in the state Senate last fall, they ceded ground in the state's populous — and growing — suburbs, an ominous sign for the party's future in a once-promising state."

According to Amy Koch, the former Republican state Senate majority leader, "What happened this week is that a bunch of activists and legislators and former legislators, all those folks stood up and said it's not OK. It's not OK. We're not going to allow this to go forward."

Joe Polunc, a former GOP chair in Carver County, echoed those sentiments, explaining, "The party's going to have to suffer to some extent. I mean, the media's all over it … so there's going to be a period of time, it will be difficult."

Reflecting on a previous accusation of financial mismanagement followed by resignations within the state party, Jennifer DeJournett, president of Voices of Conservative Women, admitted, "The last time we went through this, it took months and months and months of media stories to get to the ultimate end where there needed to be a change at the top. This time, it took less than seven days."

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gwb-trading · Aug 21, 2021

Matt Gaetz critics stunned after he posts 'creepy' photo of his fiance sleeping
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-creepy/

gwb-trading · Aug 23, 2021

She's a little old for him... or maybe Matt Gaetz discovers spousal privilege against testifying.

Matt Gaetz elopes to California, marries girlfriend
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida eloped to Southern California, marrying his girlfriend Ginger Luckey in a small ceremony on Catalina Island
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/matt-gaetz-elopes-california-marries-girlfriend-79588368

Cuddles · Aug 26, 2021

gwb-trading said:
Ilhan Omar appears to have filed incomplete financial disclosure
Omar’s most recent personal disclosure lists only five assets, four of them belonging to her husband
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/omar-files-incomplete-financial-disclosure

"Squad" firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., appears to have filed an incomplete financial disclosure form, leaving out her own bank account.

Omar’s most recent personal financial filings discloses only five assets, with four of those listed belonging to her husband, Tim Mynett.

Notably, the disclosure not only fails to include the congresswoman’s husband’s earned income from his job as a partner at political consulting firm eStreet Group, but her own personal bank account itself.

Both Omar’s bank account and her spouse’s earned income from his job are assets required to be disclosed, according to federal law.

The Minnesota Democrat’s latest lacking disclosure appears to be the newest instance in her lackluster financial reporting.

Omar also appears to have failed to disclose her bank account in both her 2018 and 2019 financial disclosures, suggesting a potential unethical pattern in what she is disclosing to the public.

Omar’s campaign paid eStreet Group $3.7 million over the 2020 cycle, according to campaign filings, contributing four-fifths of political payments to her husband’s firm during the election cycle.

Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) executive director Kendra Arnold told FOX Business in a Tuesday email that all members of Congress "are required to fully disclose both their income and assets, along with those of their spouse."

"Any failure to meet the legal requirements is unacceptable, which can be investigated by the House Ethics Committee," Arnold said. "Like all Members of Congress, if Rep. Omar's husband had earned income she is required to report it, along with any bank accounts that earn interest and meet the threshold value for reporting."

"Not reporting information that meets the criteria is an ethics violation," Arnold said.

While there appears to be a pattern of financial disclosure failures, it is entirely possible that Omar does not actually have a personal bank account to disclose.

FOX Business asked the congresswoman’s office if she had a bank account and, if so, why did she not disclose it in her financial reports.

Omar's spokesperson Jeremy Slevin told FOX Business in a Tuesday email that the congresswoman "has been in full compliance with House Ethics rules."

"She has reported everything that is needed to be reported on the financial disclosure form accurately," Slevin said.
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Buy1Sell2 · Sep 2, 2021

Oops---there goes your narrative---
Prosectors Say Matt Gaetz’s Father Was an Extortion Victim After All
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-was-an-extortion-victim-after-all/ar-AANXrAY
On Tuesday, a fraud convict named Stephen Alford was indicted by federal prosecutors in Florida on charges of wire fraud and destruction of property subject to a seizure warrant — charges related to an apparent plot to extort $25 million from Matt Gaetz’s father, Don Gaetz, in exchange for securing a presidential pardon for the representative facing an investigation for allegedly sex-trafficking a teenager.

Tsing Tao · Sep 2, 2021

I haven't been following this, so looking for an update.

Has Matt Gaetz been indicted yet?

Buy1Sell2 · Sep 2, 2021

Tsing Tao said:
I haven't been following this, so looking for an update.

Has Matt Gaetz been indicted yet?
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er hehe

gwb-trading · Sep 3, 2021

gwb-trading · Sep 19, 2021

The FEC unanimously rejected Matt Gaetz's complaint against Twitter over an alleged 2018 'shadow ban'
https://www.businessinsider.com/fec...aetz-complaint-twitter-2018-shadow-ban-2021-9

gwb-trading · Sep 23, 2021

'Very credible' allegations against Matt Gaetz were divulged to Dilbert cartoonist before they became public: report
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-dilbert/