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Matt Gaetz Girlfriend Gabs To Grand Jury

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The stakeout kings at CNN and NBC broke the news that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s old girlfriend testified this morning before a federal grand jury investigating the Florida congressman for possible sex crimes.

Gaetz, who is now 39, was in an open relationship with the witness in 2017 when she was a college student interning on Capitol Hill. During the same time period, Rep. Gaetz (R-Orgy), was spending a lot of time with his buddy Joel Greenberg, then the tax collector for Seminole County, Florida.

Greenberg pleaded guilty to one count each of sex trafficking a minor, producing a fake ID, identity theft, stalking, wire fraud, and defrauding the federal government’s covid relief program, and has been cooperating with federal agents. There’s been extensive reporting on his communications with and about Gaetz, including Venmo payments that coincide with the congressman’s travels, and a written confession to Roger Stone that Greenberg witnessed Gaetz having sex with the underaged girl at the center of the sex trafficking allegation.

But now things appear to have gotten significantly worse for Congressman Horndog, with his ex-girlfriend appearing to have struck an immunity deal with the feds.

Politico previously reported that the girlfriend feared being charged with obstruction of justice because she may have discouraged other witnesses from cooperating with law enforcement agents.

The woman grew increasingly concerned with the investigation because she may face obstruction charges after calling the alleged 17-year-old victim and her roommate, who were friends of hers from Central Florida, multiple sources said. The woman suspected that the 17-year-old and her roommate recorded her call perhaps because they were cooperating with the federal government, her friends said. That conversation could have exposed her to an obstruction of justice charge because she was opposed to talking to the feds, the friends said.

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But if prosecutors have immunized her, she may have stories to tell about her former boyfriend’s penchant for commercial sexual transactions.

And that’s not all, according to NBC.

After the investigation began, Gaetz spoke with his ex-girlfriend in a three-way call with yet another woman who was cooperating with federal investigators at that point and was secretly recording the call, according to two sources familiar with the case.

It’s on that call that Gaetz is suspected of obstructing justice, which federal prosecutors are investigating, according to law enforcement sources.

“Congressman Gaetz pursues justice, he doesn’t obstruct it,” huffed his spokesman Harlan Hill back in June.

And he better hope that’s true. Because clearly Rep. Peenergaetz is too stupid to do crime and get away with it.

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Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend enters Florida courthouse where grand jury investigating the congressman meets [CNN]
Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testifies to grand jury in sex trafficking probe [NBC]
Feds tighten grip in Gaetz probe [Politico]

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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