Matt Gaetz 's ex-girlfriend is cooperating with prosecutors investigating possible sex trafficking, according to a report. She has featured in the investigation thanks to a video she filmed of herself naked hula-hooping, which she sent to Gaetz, and he reportedly shared with other members of Congress. Gaetz is in the spotlight thanks to his friendship with a former Florida tax collector, Joel Greenberg, described as his 'wingman', who on Monday pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud and sexual offenses.
That wasn't true, it was just a false thing that Joel Greenberg had said and that's landed him in quite a bit of trouble. Gaetz's ex is considered key to helping prosecutors piece together transaction records, which they believe to be payment for sex.
Greenberg told investigators that Gaetz and at least two other men had sexual contact with a year-old girl. Gaetz with his fiancee Ginger Luckey, who he met in March and proposed to in December. Gaetz, Greenberg and Roger Stone, self-described Republican 'dirty trickster'. In April, Politico reported that the former girlfriend had told friends she was worried that a year-old who is key to the federal government's sex-crimes investigation tried to get her to incriminate him on a recorded call.
The woman called the ex-girlfriend to discuss a trip they all took to the Bahamas, in September The call took place sometime after Greenberg was indicted for the sex crime in August. Gaetz was accompanied in the Bahamas by two other Florida Republican political players - Jason Pirozzolo, a former Orlando-area aviation authority member, who has acted as a fundraiser for Governor Ron DeSantis; and Halsey Beshears, a former state representative.
Federal authorities are examining the Bahamas trip to see if it violated the Mann Act, which forbids transporting people across state lines to engage in prostitution. The alleged victim in the sex-trafficking case had turned 18 almost nine months before the Bahamas trip. But Gaetz has acknowledged he's the subject of a federal investigation into whether he had improper involvement with her as a year-old. Federal authorities seized the iPhones of Gaetz and his former girlfriend in January.
