Prosecutors recommend against charging GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz in sex trafficking probe, report says

Prosecutors person recommended not to bring charges against Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz arsenic portion of a enactment trafficking investigation, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing radical acquainted with the matter.

The prosecutors said they made that determination successful portion due to the fact that of credibility questions with 2 cardinal witnesses, those radical told the Post.

The reported proposal means the Department of Justice is improbable to complaint Gaetz with a transgression arsenic a effect of the probe. The probe began successful 2020 and centered connected the Florida congressman's alleged narration with a 17-year-old miss years earlier.

Gaetz has denied immoderate wrongdoing since The New York Times archetypal reported successful March 2021 that the DOJ was investigating whether he had a intersexual narration with the underage miss and paid for her travels with him.

A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for remark connected the Post's report.

When asked for remark connected the report, Gaetz lawyer Isabelle Kirshner told CNBC, "When I perceive it from DOJ, I'm blessed to talk."

People acquainted with the lawsuit told the Post that the 17-year-old miss is 1 of the 2 witnesses whose grounds whitethorn not basal up earlier a jury.

The 2nd idiosyncratic is Joel Greenberg, the erstwhile Seminole County, Florida, taxation collector and person of Gaetz who past twelvemonth pleaded blameworthy to aggregate crimes successful a lawsuit that led to the probe of the congressman.

Read the afloat study from The Washington Post.

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