Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz may be in serious trouble.
Yesterday, a former girlfriend of Gaetz testified before a federal grand jury investigating him for alleged sex crimes.
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Reporters first spotted the woman and her attorney entering a federal courthouse in Orlando.
Prosecutors consider Gaetz's ex, a former congressional staffer he met in 2017, a key witness.
She is reportedly in talks for an immunity deal.
NBC News' Marc Caputo has more:
The ex-girlfriend, whose name is being withheld by NBC News to respect her privacy, has been in talks for months with prosecutors about an immunity deal. Under a possible deal, she would avoid prosecution for obstruction of justice in return for testifying in the investigation into whether Gaetz in 2017 had sex with a 17-year-old female for money and whether months later he and others violated a federal law prohibiting people from transporting others across state lines to engage in prostitution.
Legal sources familiar with the case say Gaetz is being investigated for three distinct crimes: sex trafficking the 17-year-old; violating the Mann Act, which prohibits taking women across state lines for prostitution; and obstructing justice.
Gaetz has not been charged with a crime and maintains his innocence. Neither Gaetz nor the Department of Justice has responded to requests for comment.
The investigation into Gaetz has lasted for more than a year and began when a former friend and ally of his, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, was charged with a host of crimes — from falsely smearing a political rival as being a pedophile to cheating taxpayers in a cryptocurrency scheme to sex-trafficking the same 17-year-old in the Gaetz investigation.
Greenberg has agreed to plead guilty to six of the charges against him and is cooperating with federal investigators, NBC News has previously reported.
At this hour, top Democrats are calling for Gaetz's removal from the House Judiciary Committee. (RELATED: Here Are 15 Crimes Biden's New US Attorney Won't Prosecute)
Are you worried that Gaetz is about to be criminally indicted? As always, tell us in the comments below.
Gaetz is a danger to the Democrats. They’re using this woman to try and destroy him. They’ve probably threatened her and her family, it wouldn’t surprise me anymore. I Ever since Obama corrupted our federal agencies; I have no trust in our government.
Absolutely agree.
Absolutely agree! He is smart and a pain in the Democratic side!!!
I thoroughly believe Matt Gaetz is being railroaded for something he did not do.
As long as Swalwell sits on the House Intelligence Committee after being caught with a Chinese spy, this can only be a politically motivated witch hunt. But look at what other atrocities these traitors have put America through, the Russian Collusion Hoax, two impeachments for nothing, the Jan6 protestors being persecuted in political prison. I have no doubt that Matt Gaetz got into some situation that allowed this to occur but after two years of riots where pretty much everybody got off Scott free and five years of the political persecution of Donald Trump, I don’t see how the democrats can even show their faces in public. They really are shameless.
I absolutely agree. This is a witch hunt in a two tiered system where the Democrats do the most heinous crimes and nothing happens but they go after high profile Conservative Republicans and either manufacture or blow up something to destroy them. The Democrats are afraid of Republicans like Matt Gaetz because he’s very vocal & makes a lot of sense.
This is what the corrupt Dem leftists do. They did the same thing to Judge Kavennaugh and it was proven to be ALL orchestrated LIES! Shame. How do these evil people sleep at night.
“How do these evil people sleep at night.”
Ans. Mostly on their right side and the sheep in the middle. And, quite well, actually, knowing that they have friends in high places.