Justice Dept. Adds Two Top Prosecutors to Matt Gaetz Case

[demmiblue]

The move by the department is a sign of the complex and high-stakes nature of the sex trafficking investigation into Representative Gaetz, a close ally of Donald Trump.

The Justice Department has added two top prosecutors from Washington to the child sex trafficking investigation of Representative Matt Gaetz, according to two people briefed on the matter, a sign of the complex and high-stakes nature of the inquiry into Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican who is one of former President Donald J. Trump’s closest congressional allies.

The prosecutors — one a public corruption investigator with an expertise in child exploitation crimes, and the other a top leader of the public corruption unit — have been working on the Florida-based investigation for at least three months, the people said.

It is not unusual for prosecutors from the Justice Department in Washington to be added to local teams of federal investigators in high-profile cases that require a deep and specific expertise like sex crimes.

The Washington prosecutors have joined a group of federal authorities in Florida who have been investigating accusations of sex trafficking, fraud and corruption by several people connected to Republican politics in Florida, including Mr. Gaetz. The authorities have been examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated a federal child sex trafficking law by providing goods or payments to a 17-year-old girl in exchange for sex.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department.html

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[Vinca]

1. After his snarky performance today, I hope his behind lands in prison for an extended stay.

Oh, heck, I wished that anyway. LOL.

[JohnSJ]

2. +++

[triron]

3. Not a good sign for Matty.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. What perks up my ears here is "public corruption"

[Hortensis]

5. Thanks! I missed that and had to look it up.

Public corruption, the FBI’s top criminal investigative priority, poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life. It can affect everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods protected to how verdicts are handed down in courts to how public infrastructure such as roads and schools are built.

The Bureau’s Public Corruption program focuses on:

Investigating violations of federal law by public officials at the federal, state, and local levels of government;
Overseeing the nationwide investigation of allegations of fraud related to federal government procurement, contracts, and federally funded programs;
Combating the threat of public corruption along the nation’s borders and points of entry in order to decrease the country’s vulnerability to drug and weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, espionage, and terrorism.
Addressing environmental crime, election fraud, and matters concerning the federal government procurement, contracts, and federally funded programs.

Hoping they're after more than transporting a teenager across state lines for sex.

[70sEraVet]

6. "Campaign Cash for (minor) Girls Gone Wild"

It's going to be a BIG deal!

(The title of this post is not a quote from anything - just a spoof on " Girls Gone Wild" videos)

[riversedge]

7. says they have been on the case for 3 months. I am thinking Matt Gaetz knows this.

[BleedsBlue]

8. Once matty boy is charged.. I hope

We need to start tying him to Desatan, LOTS of pictures of those two together...

[monkeyman1]

9. And this pos is still on committee's making law's ! why ?

almost like the fox guarding the hen house ! just don't make sense !

[liberalla]

10. This would be making me a little nervous if I was gaetz...

[Bettie]

11. Good!

Happy to see some more movement on this.

I doubt he'll see even a day in prison, but a girl can hope.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Tick Tock Motherfucker.

You’re at the end of your rope.

[msfiddlestix]

13. So long as none of them were on the Whitey Bulger or Epstein investigations

Could list a few more I'm sure where the DOJ and FBI investigations were buried, slow walked or simply shelved after a long period of time when the public and the press long past forgotten the stories.

[malaise]

14. It's going to be so much fun to watch that big mouth lout's balloon burst

and it's going to happen

[Evolve Dammit]

15. His shelf life is about to expire.

[TeamProg]

16. We're gonna need a bigger LASSO to ROPE IN all the f'ing Republicons in

FLORIDA.

LOCK THEM UP !!

[Skittles]

17. YES PLEASE

[Xolodno]

18. I have a feeling...

...he may not be running for re-election soon.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. He'll blame it on his "wife." Blah blah blah unfair media, strain on

innocent spouse, family life, new marriage, outrageous evil media fake news had to take me down because I was a threat to the socialist agenda blah blah blah.