More details about this alleged extortion......wut!??

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Gaetz investigation complicated by overture to his father about ex-FBI agent who went missing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/matt-gaetz-investigation-robert-levinson/2021/03/31/ebe2a9ba-923e-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html

Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican known for his fierce allegiance to former president Donald Trump, had been under Justice Department investigation for months for a possible sex crime when two men approached his father with a proposal, people familiar with the matter said.

The men had learned of the investigation, they wrote to Don Gaetz, and wanted to offer an opportunity to help his son, the people said. He could give a huge sum of money to fund their effort to locate Robert A. Levinson — the longest held American hostage in Iran whose family has said they were told he is dead. If the operation was a success, he would win favor with the U.S. government and help alleviate Matt Gaetz’s legal woes.

But Don Gaetz, a prominent Florida Republican who once led the state Senate, viewed the communication suspiciously, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe a continuing and politically sensitive probe. The investigation into Matt Gaetz’s alleged crime — he is suspected of having sex with a 17-year-old girl, as well as funding her travel — was not public knowledge. Fearing his family was being extorted, Don Gaetz contacted the FBI.

The messy political drama has in some ways diverted attention from a grim reality for the congressman. He remains under investigation for possible sex crimes, leaving him vulnerable to potentially serious legal jeopardy.

The men who approached Gaetz’s father, people familiar with the matter said, had no apparent connection to the sex crimes investigation of his son, other than having somehow learned about it before it was publicly reported. But when news of law enforcement’s interest in Gaetz surfaced Tuesday, the congressman asserted that the allegation was “rooted in an extortion effort against my family for $25 million,” and he identified by name a former federal prosecutor who he said was part of the effort.

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Gaetz is fucked.

[uponit7771]

2. LOL, So Gaetz's father contacts FBI with a non falsifiable story claiming people approached him ...

... about favors for the Trump admin?

lofl ... right

[Scrivener7]

3. A) Any extortion does not absolve Gaetz from trafficking a minor across state lines for the

purposes of sex and B) The story of the extortion makes no sense whatsoever.

Here's what I believe: Gaetz is a sexual abuser of minors and, unrelatedly, his family may have been the target of something like a Nigerian prince con.

[Bev54]

7. Any extortion was probably set up by Matt Gaetz himself.

[dawg day]

4. Huh? Give us money to get back hostage.

And everyone will like him and (step missing here) and somny will get off?

[The Magistrate]

5. A Date For This 'Approach' Would Be Nice, Ma'am

Surprised one was not included in the report.

[Nevilledog]

6. Gaetz said several weeks.

Investigation of the sex trafficking began last June.

Link to tweet

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Who are these other people?!

Fabrications of the Gaetz family?

If real people, then like the Coen brothers' movie "Burn After Reading", it seems weirdly complicated for the accusations against Matt Gaetz about child sex / trafficking.

That movie had extortionists in it too, gym employees who found a CD left behind by a patron. And the FBI** was always in the background of that movie plot as well, never fully understanding it because of the growing number of new parties that kept getting involved.

** Correction: It was the CIA in the background of the movie plot, not the FBI.