The FBI investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for claims that he was part of a scheme to transport an underage girl over state lines for sex acts did not lead to charges against the congressman, who has denied any wrongdoing. But one of his allies, county tax official Joel Greenberg, who received money from Gaetz before Venmoing the girl, ended up sentenced to 11 years in prison.
But there's one more person who could be in hot water in all this: Florida Republican lobbyist Christopher Dorworth, who filed a bizarre lawsuit against several people who tangentially involved him in the investigation — and is now being accused of rape by the girl at the heart of the scheme.
"Despite claims from Greenberg that Gaetz recruited and paid that teenager for sex, the high-profile investigation fizzled in February when the Department of Justice declined to prosecute the congressman," reported Jose Pagliery and Roger Sollenberger of the Daily Beast. "But little was ever said about the lobbyist. He’s now attempting to sue Greenberg, Greenberg’s wife, and the woman at the center of the child sex trafficking allegations for defamation and racketeering — and asking the court to declare that he never had sex with the woman when she was underage. But just as Barbara Streisand’s efforts to conceal a picture of her home led to more attention, the lawsuit is now drawing more attention to the old wounds — and putting the once underage sex trafficking victim on the record that Dorworth had sex with her too."...
