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Zorro

(15,724 posts)
Fri May 14, 2021, 09:49 PM May 2021

Rep. Matt Gaetz Snorted Cocaine With Escort Who Had 'No Show' Gov't Job

Source: Daily Beast

When Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando, his date that night was someone he knew well: a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a cocaine-fueled party after the event, according to two witnesses.

The Florida congressman’s one-time wingman, Joel Greenberg, will identify that escort to investigators as one of more than 15 young women Gaetz paid for sex, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

But what distinguishes this woman, Megan Zalonka, is that she turned her relationship with Greenberg into a taxpayer-funded no-show job that earned her an estimated $7,000 to $17,500, according to three sources and corresponding government records obtained by The Daily Beast.

On Oct. 26, 2019, Gaetz attended the “Trump Defender Gala” fundraiser as the featured speaker at the Westgate Lake Resort in Orlando. Two witnesses present recalled friends reconvening at Gaetz’s hotel room for an after-party, where Zalonka prepared lines of cocaine on the bathroom counter. One of those witnesses distinctly remembers Zalonka pulling the drugs out of her makeup bag, rolling a bill of cash, and joining Gaetz in snorting the cocaine.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-matt-gaetz-snorted-cocaine-with-megan-zalonka-escort-who-had-no-show-govt-job

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Snorted Cocaine With Escort Who Had 'No Show' Gov't Job (Original Post) Zorro May 2021 OP
I'm not into prosecutions of sex workers or drug users, but fraudsters (no show gov job)? Hell yeah RockRaven May 2021 #1
Let me guess.... Prof. Toru Tanaka May 2021 #2
She said: Marcuse May 2021 #3
Matt's going to have a great time in prison! TeamProg May 2021 #4
Megan's mother must be so proud of her PSPS May 2021 #5
Defrauding taxpayers to give money to hookers IronLionZion May 2021 #6
"Law and Order" is for others than them. nt Justice matters. May 2021 #7
Let me know when she testifies under oath onenote May 2021 #8
Matt "Hookers and Blow" Gaetz Blue Owl May 2021 #9
Isn't a "no-show" job theft by deception? bucolic_frolic May 2021 #10
K&R ck4829 May 2021 #11
Perfect DENVERPOPS May 2021 #12

RockRaven

(14,906 posts)
1. I'm not into prosecutions of sex workers or drug users, but fraudsters (no show gov job)? Hell yeah
Fri May 14, 2021, 09:52 PM
May 2021

I'm into that. Let's go!

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,944 posts)
2. Let me guess....
Fri May 14, 2021, 10:00 PM
May 2021


her no-show job description was "procurement and supply representative".

And yes, prosecute her for fraud and if Gaetz can be tied to this add it to the list of crimes they are after him for.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
6. Defrauding taxpayers to give money to hookers
Sat May 15, 2021, 12:15 AM
May 2021

is as Republican as it gets for the family values low tax party of Trump.

onenote

(42,598 posts)
8. Let me know when she testifies under oath
Sat May 15, 2021, 12:54 PM
May 2021

Until then I’m not going to get to excited about these stories based on unnamed witnesses.

DENVERPOPS

(8,790 posts)
12. Perfect
Mon May 17, 2021, 12:59 PM
May 2021

all he has to do is put her on retainer on the taxpayer's tab, not using his or his friends money.

He gets a supplier of Coke AND a full time pimp to get a never ending number of underage girls for he and his Republican Friends and politicians.

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