Gaetz Nightmare: New Sex Abuse Details May Be Made Public

In 2023, after years of investigation into now well-known private parties, Venmo payments, very young women, and criminal friends, the Justice Department informed Florida Representative Matt Gaetz that it would not prosecute him for the associated above issues. But that doesn’t mean that serious concerns and serious assertions don’t exist and won’t come out, indeed, it looks like many soon will.

Let’s explain. One can easily get lost in the myriad of details in the surprisingly complex civil case. But some details, perhaps some of the most lurid ones, will perhaps come out this coming week. Ironically, it all stems from a lawsuit originally filed to protect Gaetz – and himself – from facing scrutiny by suppressing some key facts and instead may be the source.

To keep things straight, one has to understand the role of three people. Gaetz is obvious. Florida lobbyist and Gaetz friend Chris Dorworth is said to be caught up in much of the sexual activity and payments that weigh Gaetz down, also the plaintiff in the case. And then there is Joel Greenberg, who was the friend and co-conspirator of both. Greenberg orchestrated the parties, the girls, and payments, and for it, now sits in prison for an 11-year term.

More importantly, Greenberg wrote a confession letter that at the very least touches on activities done by Dorworth and Gaetz. So Dorwood sued Greenberg and the young woman involved, all in an attempt to suppress Greenberg’s details. Except it didn’t.

Dorwood’s lawsuit dropped the young woman as a defendant, perhaps in a belief that if the lawsuit went away, so would the details. Except the defense attorneys want to be paid and Dorwood has money, a lot of it. The defense attorneys are trying to leverage the secrecy to get  their fees paid.

If Dorwood wants things to remain secret, he’ll have to pay for it.

From the NOTU congressional news service:

[T]he DOJ informed Gaetz in early 2023 that it would not be criminally charging him. In the wake of that decision, Dorworth filed a state lawsuit against Greenberg, his family, their Florida dental business and one of the women who said she was a “sex trafficking victim.” The lawsuit claimed a vast conspiracy that cost Dorworth his lucrative lobbying career.

The woman fought back in court, with her lawyers depicting what they called her “experiences being sex trafficked and statutorily raped by plaintiff,” referring to Dorworth.

Yes, well – vast conspiracy or not, the suit was filed primarily to shut Greenberg and the woman up (among others) because Dorwood was almost necessarily involved in the same activities and that’s a problem.

Gaetz has somehow managed to weather the scandal, which is almost as absurd as being a middle-aged congressman and paying teens for sex. Speaking of which, isn’t there another name and another criminal law applicable to men who pay for sex? But he may be angry that his privacy is being leveraged to pay legal fees. Maybe Gaetz might? His family is rich, too.

Weirder things have happened.

As to what might come to light? God only knows, because DOJ dropped the case, in large part, due to the young woman’s lack of credibility. Note, that doesn’t mean that she was lying. It means that she’d lied enough in enough situations that a jury simply wouldn’t have believed her. What does that mean? Some of the allegations may be as explosive as they are true.

Even if not, it is never good, never, to have your name related to teen girls, parties, Venmo, and the Department of Justice…

We’ll see, probably, which is probably surprising.