After two big fundraising quarters to kick off 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz's campaign committee ended the year losing nearly $100,000. thedailybeast.com/how-matt-gaetz…
The Gaetz campaign hemorrhaged well over a million dollars in costs last year that appear to be associated with the investigation and related fallout—more than one out of every five dollars raised in the same period. thedailybeast.com/how-matt-gaetz…
As for Gaetz’s legal troubles, more than $100,000 of his campaign disbursements on the year went to lawyers. In fact, Friends of Matt Gaetz paid more than its previous four-year total to one lawyer alone this year—$75,000 to Marc Fernich. thedailybeast.com/how-matt-gaetz…
Matt Gaetz’s joint fundraising committee with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also appears to have all-but-officially gone bust. The committee received one donation since the end of September—from Gaetz himself.
Brian Flores, one of the few Black head coaches in the NFL's history, was in the middle of interviewing with the NY Giants last week when he learned the team was leading him on.
According to the lawsuit by Flores, the Giants would likely have gotten away with "this most insidious form of discrimination" if Bill Belichick hadn't mistakenly told Flores (via text) he was getting passed over for a white man. thedailybeast.com/fired-dolphins…
The lawsuit contains screengrabs of text messages between Brian Flores and Bill Belichick, who apparently thought he’d texted Brian Daboll – the white coach that got the Giants’ top job. thedailybeast.com/fired-dolphins…
Rogan’s apology did earn praise from Andy, though: “Rogan is, and this separates him from Dave Portnoy the Barstool Guy, an honest guy. I don't think he’s playing a role,” he says. However! Not preparing for interviews or fact-checking? It baffles them. bit.ly/34sxIcf
Speaking of fact-checking, @Sulliview, media columnist at The Washington Post came on to discuss major media lawsuits like Palin’s against the NY Times and Dominion Voting v Fox News bit.ly/34sxIcf
EXCLUSIVE: New court papers accuse notorious Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya of a clandestine effort to tamper with official government papers. thedailybeast.com/natalia-veseln…
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the pro-Kremlin lawyer who attended the notorious 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, allegedly doctored official documents, according to leaked files viewed by The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com/natalia-veseln…
Veselnitskaya, who was tasked with pushing one of President Vladimir Putin’s most cherished propaganda campaigns in the U.S., has already been indicted on obstruction of justice charges by prosecutors for the Southern District of New York. thedailybeast.com/natalia-veseln…
Remember when Tucker Carlson gave a spy novelist airtime to demand the vaccines get pulled for supposedly killing people? The @NewAbnormalPod hosts do!
“They are literally killing their viewers,” says @andylevy
Speaking of Fox hosts, the crew also discusses the latest Sarah Palin fiasco, which includes her testing positive for COVID and then continuing to dine out in NYC. bit.ly/3s2k5bW
Then, Wapo columnist Greg Sargent (aka @ThePlumLineGS) talks about the time Glenn Youngkin managed to convince Virginians that school board members trying to follow the law were “power-mad bureaucrats who are trampling on the rights of virtuous parents” bit.ly/3s2k5bW
41-year-old Sharon Maddox admitted in a bond hearing to bugging her husband, cop Sean Maddox, after she became concerned he was cheating on her. She said she placed a recording device in his squad car for three days after finding a blonde hair in it. thedailybeast.com/she-bugged-her…
According to her lawyer, Kristin Paulding, the tape confirmed what Sharon suspected: that her husband was sleeping with a local 911 dispatcher. thedailybeast.com/she-bugged-her…
The recording might have remained secret forever if the dispatcher hadn’t accused Sean Maddox weeks later of abducting and raping her on April 27—the day after his wife put the recording device in his car. thedailybeast.com/she-bugged-her…
EXCLUSIVE: On Sept. 4, 2017, according to his confession, Joel Greenberg called Matt Gaetz with some bad news—a teen they paid to have sex with was underage. Now, two sources tell The Beast, a witness can confirm details of that call because he was there. thedailybeast.com/witness-can-co…
The witness is “Big Joe” Ellicott—Greenberg’s longtime best friend and an employee at the Seminole County tax office—who recently pleaded guilty to fraud and drug charges as part of a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors. thedailybeast.com/witness-can-co…
Ellicott has so far avoided any charges regarding sex trafficking of a minor, but he was present for the call that Greenberg made to Gaetz, according to two people briefed on the matter. The call, they said, was short—and Gaetz was the one who ended it. thedailybeast.com/witness-can-co…