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30 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
i get the sense Gaetz's ties to this County tax chief who got charged with sex trafficking and other corruption and is also buds with roger stone may be a bigger problem for him than the 17 yr old. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyt-matt-… via @TPM
2/ not that it's either/or. but this seems tied to something broader and perhaps with more extensive criminal activity than sexual encounters with a single underaged woman.
3/ here's the guy whose investigation matt got sucked into. sounds like a bad set of facts for a congressman to be near to. orlandosentinel.com/news/seminole-…
4/ when I first saw the reference to "trafficking" with Gaetz I was a little suspicious because trafficking is now commonly used as upcharges for sex work or statutory rape. they reference his paying for her travel, presumably over state lines. But the Greenberg stuff ...
5/ makes it seems more like ... well, sex trafficking of minors. see screen cap above.

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