https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/gaetz-sex-trafficking.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE0.8zXc.Nfj5eINEy6cW&smid=url-share
A year after the Justice Department decided not to bring charges against Representative Matt Gaetz in a sex-trafficking investigation, the House Ethics Committee is moving forward with an inquiry into him.
Mr. Gaetz has claimed that the inquiry is in retaliation for him raping and trafficking underage girls
For anyone else who'd like to speculate why Mr. Gaetz seems to be being treated with kid's gloves over these allegations, I'd like to remind people who his brother-in-law is.
VR headsets are how you steer suicide drones to their target. Turns out to be the real killer app for VR in a way that games and entertainment were not.
kid’s gloves
It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves
Thanks. Apparently I've been saying that phrase wrong my whole life...
I'm going to leave the comment as-is tho for the unintentional pun it created.
"ranked number 22 on Forbes' 2016 List of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.[4]" from Wikipedia. Started with Oculus VR, and moved into defense technology, autonomous drones and sensors for military applications. Sounds lovely. /s
Reports that the victims were offered extra credit in their Civics classes to come forward have not yet been substantiated.
Greenberg is a foul SOB which is one reason the DOJ couldn't put him on the stand, but the ethics committee has no such qualms.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He had previously cooperated with a Justice Department investigation into whether Mr. Gaetz had engaged in sex trafficking of a minor, a federal offense that carries a minimum of 10 years in prison.
Last year, the Justice Department quietly closed the inquiry into Mr. Gaetz after investigators concluded they could not make a strong enough case against him in court, people familiar with the matter said.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Gaetz, Jillian L. Wyant, said on Friday that the Justice Department had received the same material as that sent to the Ethics Committee and “deemed it unreliable and declined to press charges.” The news media, she added, “should not be laundering smears from people in prison.”
It is unclear how useful the documents will be to the committee, which began its investigation into Mr. Gaetz several months ago, after concluding one into George Santos, the former New York representative who had fabricated large portions of his background as he ran for Congress.
Mr. Gaetz has claimed that the inquiry is in retaliation against him for taking the lead in ousting Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.
Mr. Scheller said at the time that the Justice Department’s decision proved that the country had “two systems” — one that favors politicians like Mr. Gaetz and penalizes those who are less powerful, like Mr. Greenberg.
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