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Hacker got damaging sealed testimony against Matt Gaetz

PENSACOLA, Fla. − Files containing statements from witnesses who gave damaging testimony against former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, were hacked on Monday, attorneys say.

The hacked files include an unredacted deposition of a woman who reportedly claimed to have had sex with Gaetz when she was 17.

The attorneys are involved in a federal defamation lawsuit against former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg brought by former state lawmaker and lobbyist Chris Dorworth in 2023. The lawsuit accuses Greenberg, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, and several of Greenberg's family members of "conspiring with Joel’s sex trafficking victim ... to falsely accuse Dorworth and Gaetz of sexual misconduct."

Greenberg's attorney, Fritz Wermuth, notified other attorneys in the case that unredacted documents were accessed from a secure document sharing service by an "unauthorized third party" on Monday afternoon.

In an email obtained by the USA TODAY Network to attorneys in a Florida defamation lawsuit, Wermuth warns that unredacted files with depositions of several witnesses were accessed.

"The exhibits included, for instance, unredacted copies of the deposition transcripts" of three witnesses, including the alleged trafficking victim, Wermuth wrote in the email.

Witnesses in the case said the 17-year-old alleged trafficking victim had "access to the bedrooms in the Dorworth Residence to engage in sexual activities" as well as "alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy also known as molly, and marijuana."

Several of the witnesses in the defamation case have also testified before the House Ethics Committee.

Florida Attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News on Monday that he represents two women who testified that Gaetz paid them for sex through Venmo, and one witness said she saw Gaetz having sex with her then 17-year-old friend at a Florida house party in July 2017.

Gaetz has vehemently and repeatedly denied the allegations.

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Wednesday behind closed doors to discuss whether to release its report on the allegations against Gaetz. Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly urged the bipartisan committee to not release the report because Gaetz is no longer a member of the House. House Ethics Chair Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., told Politico the committee would make its own decision regardless of what Johnson said.

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by Anonymousreply 88November 23, 2024 12:03 PM

GOOD!

So THIS is how Democrats can get back at Trump and his fucking gang of crooked CUNTS.

EXPOSE them to the light of day.

EXPOSE every single one of these motherfuckers, and humiliate the fuck out of them.

MAGATS won't care, but it's still gratifying to see them dragged through the mud, like the fucking PIGS that they are!!!

by Anonymousreply 1November 20, 2024 6:43 AM

[quote] House has ‘numerous’ photos from women who say they were paid a total of more than $10,000 by Gaetz for sex, lawyer says

Two women who claim they were paid for sex by former Rep. Matt Gaetz provided House ethics investigators with “numerous” photos related to time they spent with the Florida Republican, a lawyer for the women said Tuesday, including from an alleged 2019 trip to New York.

The women said they were paid by the former congressman for sex on that trip, during which they also joined Gaetz at a Fox News studio while he filmed a TV appearance, their attorney Joel Leppard told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.” Gaetz allegedly covered the women’s travel costs as well, Leppard said.

The women additionally provided the House Ethics Committee with selfies Gaetz is said to have sent them, according to their lawyer. They also testified that they sent nude photos to Gaetz, sometimes at his request, Leppard said.

Gaetz was recently tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as his attorney general and resigned from Congress last week, effectively ending the ethics probe into him. The panel had investigated allegations of misconduct against Gaetz, including “sexual misconduct and illicit drug use,” and is considering whether to release a report on its findings.

Asked by the committee whether they ever felt pressured by Gaetz, Leppard said one of his clients testified that she felt the need to “please” the then-congressman before attending an electronic music show during the New York visit.

CNN has reached out to Gaetz for comment. Gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Leppard’s account of the testimony provides more insight into the evidence the House committee collected in its probe, which was conducted in addition to a criminal investigation by the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors declined to charge Gaetz – a decision the former congressman has pointed to as he has vehemently denied the accusations, which also include the claim that he had sex with a then-underage woman who went on to testify in both investigations.

“Merrick Garland’s DOJ cleared Matt Gaetz and didn’t charge him,” a spokesperson for Gaetz told CNN last week.

As the Senate prepares to formally consider Gaetz for the attorney general role, Democrats and some Republicans are calling for access to the House panel’s report. After Gaetz abruptly resigned from Congress upon Trump’s selection announcement, the committee delayed plans to meet to discuss the report’s release and is next scheduled to meet Wednesday. House Mike Speaker Johnson, who in the past has said he will stay out of the ethics committee’s business, has expressed opposition to the release of the report.

Leppard noted the House panel heard testimony from several other witnesses.

“The evidence that the House has, I would presume, is overwhelming, because my clients were just two of the other witnesses, and there are very important witnesses who have yet to come out and give a preview of what the House Ethics Committee results might show,” he said.

House investigators, according to the lawyer, asked the two women about records they had obtained showing payments, largely transmitted electronically, allegedly made to them by Gaetz. Leppard said the records showed one of his clients was paid more than $6,000 by the congressman and the other more than $4,000.

“What I’m telling you is just a fraction of the evidence that’s available, of the thousands of documents” the House obtained, Leppard said.

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by Anonymousreply 2November 20, 2024 6:47 AM

Cannot fathom the eyes and massive forehead along with the sexyal stuff. Is he from Deliverance country? Mom is his sister or something like that?

by Anonymousreply 3November 20, 2024 6:55 AM

Oh sure, release the report. And Why not release the pee tapes while you're at it.

by Anonymousreply 4November 20, 2024 6:59 AM

People forget that Congress works for us. We aren’t slaves to them.

by Anonymousreply 5November 20, 2024 7:03 AM

Merrick Garland 🤬

by Anonymousreply 6November 20, 2024 7:34 AM

Gaetz had cosmetic procedures to look like Beavis? Or it's a natural resemblance?

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by Anonymousreply 7November 20, 2024 8:17 AM

I agree with you, R6.

Merrick Garland is fucking infuriating!

by Anonymousreply 8November 20, 2024 8:52 AM

Garland was a terrible choice for AG. A sympathy hold over when Obama couldn't get him confirmed for the Supreme Court, and he's done nothing but wait, wait to go after Trump. Oh the country needs to heal, b.s. Trump should have been arrested the moment Biden took office, to hell with MAGA extremists. Playing nice doesn't work.

by Anonymousreply 9November 20, 2024 9:53 AM

why does it take a hacker to get this info. release the report, you fuckers.

by Anonymousreply 10November 20, 2024 9:56 AM

Garland didn’t make the decision not to prosecute. That’s not how DOJ works.

by Anonymousreply 11November 20, 2024 10:21 AM

I really hate this man's face and everything it chooses to be.

by Anonymousreply 12November 20, 2024 10:50 AM

Sex with a 17 yo , taking recreational sex drugs like Molly , that shit should ban anyone from any responsible job of any kind anywhere. And paying for sex? That is fucking unamerican.. .

by Anonymousreply 13November 20, 2024 11:26 AM

16 is usually the age of consent. Where did this happen?

by Anonymousreply 14November 20, 2024 11:31 AM

[quote]People forget that Congress works for us.

It's Congress that forgets Congress works for us.

by Anonymousreply 15November 20, 2024 11:53 AM

Indeed, both are true

by Anonymousreply 16November 20, 2024 11:57 AM

HA! I wouldn't be surprised if the Repubs themselves leaked it! They hate his everloving guts. Have you seen the news lately? Thune, MC'Connell, and even batshit Marge are all calling for the Ethics Report to come out. In her statement to the press yesterday, MTG said, she not only wanted Gaetz's report to come out, but all Ethics' violations reports to be released. This could easily be interpreted that Marge wants to hurt the Dems too, but she even made reference to other Sexcapades she knew of from her fellow party members, and that she even made a report herself!! Trump is shitting himself so bad right now that he is personally calling members of Congress to plead with them on Gaetz's behalf. Sorry Gaetz, sorry Donny, that's what you get for not giving Margie her own separate Government Department to destroy.

by Anonymousreply 17November 20, 2024 12:25 PM

Do you really think anything is going to stop him from becoming AG? If Trump wants him, it’ll happen.

by Anonymousreply 18November 20, 2024 12:30 PM

Oh, so now we're PROMOTING obviously felonious sexual-predator Congressmen?

Congress, I DEMAND a re-hearing!

by Anonymousreply 19November 20, 2024 12:36 PM

R17, Margie is making those threats against the Republicans who are the last safeguards against Trump and implementation of his insane ideas. That's where we're at these days. Dependant on some random Republicans and corporations who will be hurt by the polices to protect us.

by Anonymousreply 20November 20, 2024 12:39 PM

Margie wants that job

by Anonymousreply 21November 20, 2024 1:14 PM

Margie is trying to blackmail them in public. She doesn’t actually want those reports made public.

by Anonymousreply 22November 20, 2024 1:16 PM

100% will not matter to Trump and his cronies.

by Anonymousreply 23November 20, 2024 1:19 PM

You told me he is gay

by Anonymousreply 24November 20, 2024 1:24 PM

r24 No, I did not.

by Anonymousreply 25November 20, 2024 1:36 PM

r17 " Trump is shitting himself so bad right now that he is personally calling members of Congress to plead with them"

You are giving emotion and rationality to him. He does not worry about any of this. He does not plead. He says what he wants, demands it, and his weak cronies do whatever he tells them.

by Anonymousreply 26November 20, 2024 1:38 PM

People elected a known sexual predator as president. You think they are really going to care who the AG is? Most people have no idea what an Attorney General does IF they know what AG stands for. It doesn't matter. I mean of course it matters - but everyone's angst against it won't matter.

by Anonymousreply 27November 20, 2024 1:42 PM

R17 is shocked to find out that US Presidents work Congress often via phone to get what they want.

by Anonymousreply 28November 20, 2024 1:43 PM

His eyebrows are creepy.

by Anonymousreply 29November 20, 2024 1:55 PM

[quote] Sex with a 17 yo , taking recreational sex drugs like Molly , that shit should ban anyone from any responsible job of any kind anywhere. And paying for sex? That is fucking unamerican.. .

Welcome to the 2nd Trump Administration.

by Anonymousreply 30November 20, 2024 2:29 PM

An individual with 34 felony convictions has been elected the next president and is nominated an equally unqualified and corrupt individual to be the attorney general. Even in a comic book this would be seen as beyond the absurd, and yet this is our new reality.

by Anonymousreply 31November 20, 2024 11:21 PM

Gaetz is CREEPY and a douche bag but I am underwhelmed by his supposed sex crimes. Yes it seems he fucked a 17 yo a couple times and then her friend told him this girls age and they stopped fucking until she finally turned 18.

He was fucking 18 yos hos non stop and paying for it. The wanted it, or the money they got (a lot). His "sex crimes" disqualify him for a job in justice but for the average Joe they just are not that scandalous. Go to drug fuelled sex parties with 18-25 year old party girls and you might end up fucking a 17 yo.

by Anonymousreply 32November 20, 2024 11:27 PM

Clearly he could play the joker in any Batman film.

by Anonymousreply 33November 20, 2024 11:42 PM

By the way, these victims who testified were unwilling witnesses or whatever they are called. They didn't want to testify and they didn't want to make a fuss. I listened to a long interview with one of their lawyers.

by Anonymousreply 34November 20, 2024 11:53 PM

The only way Gaetz could get women to have sex with him was to pay them.

by Anonymousreply 35November 20, 2024 11:56 PM
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by Anonymousreply 36November 21, 2024 12:04 AM

Creepy McForehead Gaetz will be the attorney general. Everyone will back down from Trump, and he will get his way with every appointment. Republicans have no balls or moral compass.

by Anonymousreply 37November 21, 2024 12:17 AM

Here’s the bottom line: If the report cleared Gaetz at all, Republicans would be clamoring to release it. If it only contained the already-leaked allegations, they’d probably agree to release it in order to move on.

The fact they’re still keeping it under wraps tells you everything you need to know.

by Anonymousreply 38November 21, 2024 12:24 AM

R32 is a creepy MAGA kiddie diddler who is apparently fine with Gaetz having sex with underaged girls.

Typical MAGAT.

by Anonymousreply 39November 21, 2024 12:26 AM

[quote]Gaetz is CREEPY and a douche bag but I am underwhelmed by his supposed sex crimes. Yes it seems he fucked a 17 yo a couple times and then her friend told him this girls age and they stopped fucking until she finally turned 18.

"It was just statutory rape, no big deal."

by Anonymousreply 40November 21, 2024 12:26 AM

Who would have sex with him? Eww. Maybe if you had beer goggles on

by Anonymousreply 41November 21, 2024 12:28 AM

[QUOTE]"It was just statutory rape, no big deal."

It must be a big deal because:

[QUOTE]House Republicans actually voted today to block the US Senate from receiving their report containing sworn witness testimony and documentary evidence about the nominee for Attorney General of the United States paying a child $10,000 for sex.

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by Anonymousreply 42November 21, 2024 4:27 AM

I feel like I’m in the middle of a lightless jungle filled with jackals, hyenas, and vultures, all screaming that the disgusting creatures next to them have to be exposed as the liars and cheats and perverts that they are and nothing — nothing at all — changing except that with every passing moment it gets darker and louder and darker and louder and darker and louder.

by Anonymousreply 43November 21, 2024 4:47 AM

It would be great if someone went on CNN and sacrificed themselves with the URL to the material by holding up a QR code right up to your screen with the URL to the leaked docs.

by Anonymousreply 44November 21, 2024 5:27 AM

I think more benevolent hacking is in order. Liberals are way more technologically adept and could pull this off.

by Anonymousreply 45November 21, 2024 5:28 AM

I wish the Democrats had some more combative reps in the House. They could really use some hotheads to shake things up. Crazy like the Repubs but on our side. But I think that shipped has sailed for the Dems.

by Anonymousreply 46November 21, 2024 6:03 AM

Isn’t he the ugliest guy you’ve ever seen?

by Anonymousreply 47November 21, 2024 6:09 AM

R25 Yeah, you did. Everyone was saying how he is gay and fucking that adopted "son" of his, Nestor

by Anonymousreply 48November 21, 2024 9:04 AM

Matt Gaetz sex payments Exhibit:

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by Anonymousreply 49November 21, 2024 9:13 AM

R35 unlike the men of DL who would never have to pay for sex.

by Anonymousreply 50November 21, 2024 9:14 AM

R43 if you don’t like DL so much and are going to complain like that why stay?

by Anonymousreply 51November 21, 2024 9:17 AM

Obviously the most damning part of this would be the pics he sent the girls, not their testimony, If he was sending dick pics, geez yeah what a great Attorney General he would be! Did he expose poor, underage Nestor to this activity? I wonder if he did, as a way to get into Nestor's drawers. When it smells, it stinks.

by Anonymousreply 52November 21, 2024 10:44 AM

Was Nestor really a procurer of some sort?

by Anonymousreply 53November 21, 2024 10:57 AM

This is all a distraction from the fact that he is a known nepo-baby retard who has never tried a case and likely paid someone to take the bar for him.

by Anonymousreply 54November 21, 2024 11:26 AM

Not to sound too wacko. I understand paying for sex is illegal and should automatically discredit him from being the Attorney General. But what state did this happen in? Were the girls underage? If in Florida, then yes, it would be considered statutory rape to have sex with a 17 yo girl.

by Anonymousreply 55November 21, 2024 12:37 PM

And ten years ago, Sex Trafficking seemed like it meant smuggling human beings across state lines, across country boarders - like a type of sex slavery. Now it's just paying for sex across stateliness?

by Anonymousreply 56November 21, 2024 12:40 PM

Crossing state lines to engage in any illegal sexual activity is a Mann Act Violation. (As most recently amended)

I believe he’s also in violation of the Trafficking in Persons Act.

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by Anonymousreply 57November 21, 2024 12:48 PM

Text of the trafficking law. Or as I like to call it the Spitzer Act. (If you don’t get the joke, don’t worry. You had to be there.)

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by Anonymousreply 58November 21, 2024 12:53 PM

R57 Law enforcement typically only enforces that law when the perp is black.

by Anonymousreply 59November 21, 2024 12:53 PM

I wouldn’t say that R59. Maybe in the past. Look at the recent cases.

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by Anonymousreply 60November 21, 2024 1:04 PM

Gaetz is really whacked. But I remember it being reported after Adam Schiff gave his final summation on the Trump Impeachment trial that a reporter encountered a drunk Gaetz and he told the reporter Schiff gave a great closing and he was more or less convinced Herr Donald was guilty.

by Anonymousreply 61November 21, 2024 1:31 PM

When the fuck is this goddamn report going to get leaked? Enough of this shit already.

by Anonymousreply 62November 21, 2024 4:22 PM

[quote] Crossing state lines to engage in any illegal sexual activity is a Mann Act Violation. (As most recently amended)

[quote] I believe he’s also in violation of the Trafficking in Persons Act.

And Republicans in Congress are allowing him to get away with it.

All because Trump directed them to do it.

by Anonymousreply 63November 21, 2024 4:29 PM

I wasn’t talking about DL, R51. I was talking about the Senate and the House of Representatives.

by Anonymousreply 64November 21, 2024 4:35 PM

R64 from the description I was sure it was DL you were talking about and that you had nailed it..

Are you sure?

by Anonymousreply 65November 21, 2024 4:48 PM

I am sure, R65. I read as much as I could stand — I didn’t make it to the very end of the article — about the squabbling between our elected representatives over releasing what would obviously be damaging information that as citizens and voters we should have — and I was just overcome with disgust.

by Anonymousreply 66November 21, 2024 4:59 PM

His eyebrows alone should be disqualifying

by Anonymousreply 67November 21, 2024 5:11 PM

R67 they haven’t settled much since the RNC, have they?

Frightening. I can’t believe straight men are getting this kind of work done now.

by Anonymousreply 68November 21, 2024 5:53 PM

Hey R68, we get permanent eyeliner done on our eyes, too!

by Anonymousreply 69November 21, 2024 5:55 PM

[quote] I was sure it was DL you were talking about and that you had nailed it

R64 certainly hasn't nailed ME!

by Anonymousreply 70November 21, 2024 5:55 PM

Looks like this hacking of the sealed testimony worked!!!!

It got Trump and Congress running scared that it would be leaked, and the nomination PULLED.

MORE HACKING!!!

MORE HACKING!!!

by Anonymousreply 71November 21, 2024 5:57 PM

What an ugly man inside and out.

by Anonymousreply 72November 21, 2024 6:08 PM
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by Anonymousreply 73November 21, 2024 6:13 PM

It's looking like being a sex offender is requisite for being a part of this administration.

by Anonymousreply 74November 21, 2024 6:19 PM

He just withdrew his Candidacy for AG.

by Anonymousreply 75November 21, 2024 6:40 PM

There was another witness who appeared before the cmte. …Gaetz hadn’t known that fact until today.

by Anonymousreply 76November 21, 2024 7:34 PM

Was their pussy made of Gold?

10,000 dollars for pussy, seriously!!

At least take their "White Gold covered in Diamonds Rolex Presidential watch" while they are blacked out from too much coke, then go down on the bodyguard, swallowing his babies.

What happens in Vegas still in my safety deposit box.

by Anonymousreply 77November 21, 2024 8:52 PM

Someone just paid millions for a banana .

Many would pay a lot for prime 17 yo pussy but most would want it to be in a,legal state.

by Anonymousreply 78November 21, 2024 9:27 PM

I want to see the DICK PICS!!!

by Anonymousreply 79November 21, 2024 9:45 PM

Skinnyish long dick - agree that it is bent. Also the head is one of those long pointy ones. Cut, yet has pearly penile papules. Lopsided low hanging small nuts. Shaves a landing strip like a lady. Is known to wax his ass.

by Anonymousreply 80November 21, 2024 11:10 PM

That Gaetz dick is one dick pic I can live without-probably as ugly as his face.

by Anonymousreply 81November 21, 2024 11:32 PM

Guys-finally got with a guy who was well know for being well hung very thick and yes he was but this Python dick had a very small little head and that info was not in the rumors-I did the best I could but it wasn’t pretty.

by Anonymousreply 82November 21, 2024 11:39 PM

His eyebrows look like they are cliff diving off his giant forehead.

by Anonymousreply 83November 22, 2024 10:20 AM

Is Gaetz EVER going to give back Christmas?

by Anonymousreply 84November 22, 2024 10:36 AM

Lol R84.

by Anonymousreply 85November 23, 2024 3:02 AM

R84 No. His heart will remain forever small.

by Anonymousreply 86November 23, 2024 3:22 AM

Why is this thread grayed out?

MAGAT Snowflakes must be triggered.

by Anonymousreply 87November 23, 2024 3:29 AM

R87 it shows the DL support for open debate and an exchange of ideas even if we don’t agree with them unlike what those scummy MAGA Nazis would do.

The MAGA Nazis would have been FF all,over this thread. The Real Nazis vs DL Nazis would have not taken so long to grey this one out.

by Anonymousreply 88November 23, 2024 12:03 PM
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