Gaetz probe includes scrutiny of potential public corruption tied to medical marijuana industry

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U.S. federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter told CNN.

Prosecutors with the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section are examining whether Gaetz took gifts, including travel and paid escorts, in exchange for political favors, the sources said., investigators are examining whether he engaged in a relationship with a girl that began when she was 17.

Gaetz has denied ever paying for sex and over the past several weeks has sought to frame the allegations against him as the result of political bias in the justice system and the media."Providing for flights and hotel rooms for people that you're dating who are of legal age is not a crime," Gaetz said in an interview with Fox News late last month.

In 2018, Pirozzolo paid US$50,000 to be listed as a chair of a reception for then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, according to an ad for the event. He contributed to Gaetz's congressional campaign as well, though more modestly. Records show Pirozzolo made a pair of $1,000 contributions to Gaetz in 2016 and 2017.

One week after the legislation passed, Pirozzolo launched a medical marijuana consulting company, as first reported by the Orlando Sentinel. A year later, in April 2018, Gaetz introduced the Medical Cannabis Research Act, a bill designed to establish a new, separate registration process for manufacturers of cannabis for research.

 

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Criminal activity tied to marijuana, shocker!

Day 20: Still ZERO evidence of trafficking any minors on sugar daddy sites using venmo

Sounds like his kind of thing...

Why isn't he in an orange jump suit yet? Poor boy.

Cover up with ugly Hunter Biden’s laptop and promote BS Biden Biden Biden Biden so I hope Canada doesn’t report the same way

This guy just naturally looks like an asshole. Like without even trying.

Not that serious or what?

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