Yet another bomb has dropped in Matt Gaetz‘s ever-worsening teen sex/prostitution scandal.
The Daily Beast has spoken to multiple women who claim they were paid by the antigay congressman’s wingman/alleged pimp Joel Greenberg and that they “felt pressured” to drink alcohol, do drugs, and have sex.
Twelve women spoke under the condition of anonymity about their experiences with Greenberg and his buddies. Ten of them said they were strongly encouraged at some point to do drugs prior to having sex.
“I was under the influence of so many drugs,” one woman, who shared a receipt showing she was paid $375 by Greenberg, said. “I wasn’t really in a position to say I didn’t want to do this. I wasn’t in my right mind. I was in over my head and it was kind of scary.”
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Another woman said she pretended to take ecstasy and when Greenberg found out she hadn’t really taken it, he got angry and insisted she do. “I immediately left right after and was sick on the way home,” she recalled.
And another woman said she had “never seen so many drugs.”
The Daily Beast reports:
Four women said Greenberg specifically offered to introduce them to a friend of his, “a congressman,” whom they understood to be Gaetz. (These four women noted they never did meet Gaetz, however.)
One other woman did say Greenberg told her the congressman was among about 10 other men at a house party she briefly attended in April 2017. She said she left early because the situation at the house made her uncomfortable.
This latest bombshell comes just two weeks after a letter written by Greenberg to Roger Stone that showed him begging for a pardon from Donald Trump leaked. In it, Greenberg confessed that both he and Gaetz paid multiple women for sex, including a 17-year-old girl.
“On more than one occasion, this individual was involved in sexual activities with several of the other girls, the congressman from Florida’s 1st Congressional District and myself,” the letter alleges. “From time to time, gas money or gifts, rent or partial tuition payments were made to several of these girls, including the individual who was not yet 18.”
The letter goes on to claim that Greenberg “called the congressman and warned him to stay clear of this person and informed him she was underage” and that the Florida Republican was “equally shocked and disturbed” when he learned she was still a minor who hadn’t yet graduated from high school.
Meanwhile, multiple media outlets reported earlier this week that federal investigators are almost finished collecting evidence against Gaetz and that his ex-girlfriend may soon be cooperating with the investigation.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
GlobeTrotter
God knows I’m not fan of Matt Gaetz, but the more I hear about this investigation, the more disturbing it gets. Ok, we get it, he’s a party boy who likes to live it up – nothing wrong with that. I was a frat boy in my college days and I wouldn’t be sitting here if the feds had raided one of our infamous all-weekend drinkfests, including copious amounts of drugs, booze and sex…with anything that moved.
That being said, I have a problem with under-aged girls throwing themselves at adult men, and even lying or withholding their true age in the process. If this girl was 17, what was she doing at a party with grown adults? And how was anyone supposed to know she was underaged?
Matt Gaetz is an entirely insufferable and pathetic character, but in a room full of horny women, how’s he supposed to know which one is 17?
Cato
Let me rephrase that for you – “In a roomful of drugged women, how do I know which one not to try and rape?”
wiggie
Are you familiar with the term “sugar daddy”?
man5996853
You have a problem with GIRLS throwing themselves at MEN.
That’s all we need to know about you.
rand503
Legally, the burden of knowing if your sex partner is of age is upon you, the older person. In this case, Gaetz has the obligation to make sure that whoever he is having sex with is legally of age.
If he (or anyone, for that matter) should have sex with someone under age, that is statutory rape. That means intent doesn’t matter. You can’t claim you didn’t know, or she said she was legal, or anything else. If she was underage at the time, you go to jail. Period.
Regardless of what you may or may not have done when you were a frat boy, those are the rules. Ignorance of the law or the situation is no defense in this particular matter.
Gaetz had the burden and obligation to make sure that whoever he is having sex with is legal. It is not the obligation of the girl.
Regardless of any ‘poor judgement’ she might have made, this is exactly why the law is what it is. It assumes that the underage person is exercising poor judgment, or is otherwise incapable of giving informed consent.
GlobeTrotter
@rand503: I understand fully well the law regarding statutory rape, yadda, yadda, yadda, my point was to address the practically of i.t
If Gaetz is at a party full of drunk people, there’s nothing wrong with that. He approaches or is approached by a young lady who appears to be of legal age. He asks her, are you of legal age, and she says, “Yes, I am”. Is he now supposed to require her to fetch her drivers license? What reason would he now have to disbelieve her?
Like I said, I’m not defending Gaetz, I’m just trying to be fair. At some point, we have to start holding people responsible for their actions – not every underaged person is a “victim”.
I’m speaking out about this because I was almost “trapped once”. Years ago right after college I met a young guy at a party and took him back to my place. The only thing on my mind was to screw the living daylights out of him. When he took off his clothes though, something didn’t look right. His dick looked kinda small and his pubic hair looked more like peach fuzz. I asked him how old he was, and he said 18. But I wasn’t convinced, so I asked him to get dressed and leave. He kept pleading and saying he was 18, but by this point I was already so turned off. To this day I still keep wondering to myself what could or would have happened, if I were really drunk…
Fahd
Another piece of the puzzle, but not the smoking gun. His denial and distraction goes on. I look forward to tomorrow’s tidbit.
Doug
I’ll say it again: if anything was going to come out of this, it would have happened by now. He’ll end up being just another Republican darling.
succubus
he has butt-hole eyes
bodie425
Some of my best friends and favorite body parts are buttholes. How about not insulting them.
FtballBear27
They’re definitely not Bette Davis eyes lol
BaltoSteve
When he is sporting Handy Dandy wrist warmers, that’s when I will believe he is going down, Until then, I have to optimistic that he will get his comeuppance.
Krenz
Boring, write me pls gay2gay.top
TomG
One thing we KNOW about repukelicans is that it is ALWAYS do as I say and not what I do situation.