Matt Gaetz Paid Women for Sex, Had Sex With Minor, Lawyer Claims

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump‘s choose for Lawyer Basic, paid 2 grownup girls for intercourse and had intercourse with a 17-year-old woman in a pool … in accordance with the lawyer representing the ladies Gaetz allegedly paid for intercourse.

Florida lawyer Joel Leppard instructed ABC News his purchasers testified earlier than the Home of Representatives ethics committee investigating Gaetz … claiming the previous Congressman used Venmo to pay them for intercourse.

ABC Information

Leppard additionally says one among his purchasers instructed lawmakers she witnessed Gaetz having intercourse along with her 17-year-old buddy at a July 2017 home social gathering she attended.

The lawyer says his shopper’s understanding is that Gaetz didn’t know the woman was a minor after they had intercourse, and after discovering out her age, he didn’t proceed a sexual relationship with the woman till she turned 18.

Gaetz resigned from Congress final week after Trump nominated him for Lawyer Basic … a transfer that shut down the ethics committee’s investigation into Gaetz.

For his half, Gaetz has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.