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U.S. Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz (R-FL) delivers remarks successful the House Chamber during the 4th time of elections for Speaker of the House astatine the U.S. Capitol Building connected January 06, 2023 successful Washington, DC.
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The Department of Justice has decided not to criminally complaint Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., successful the agency's two-year probe of alleged sex trafficking, his lawyers said Wednesday.
The DOJ's determination was not a surprise, arsenic astir 2 years had passed without prosecutors filing charges against Gaetz, contempt obtaining cooperation successful their probe from his erstwhile friend, disgraced Florida taxation collector Joel Greenberg.
"We person conscionable spoken with the DOJ and person been informed that they person concluded their probe into Congressman Gaetz and allegations related to enactment trafficking and obstruction of justness and they person determined not to bring immoderate charges against him," Gaetz's lawyers Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kirshner said successful a connection to CNBC.
Gaetz's bureau successful a statement, said, "The Department of Justice has confirmed to Congressman Gaetz's attorneys that their probe has concluded and that helium volition not beryllium charged with immoderate crimes."
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment.
The Washington Post successful September reported that vocation prosecutors had recommended against charging Gaetz owed to concerns astir Greenberg and different imaginable witness.
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Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years successful situation successful December aft pleading blameworthy to enactment trafficking of minor, individuality theft, stalking, ligament fraud and conspiracy to bribe a nationalist official.
Prosecutors person said that Greenberg paid astatine slightest 1 insignificant to person enactment with him and different men.
Greenberg's lawyer successful December criticized the DOJ's handling of the case, noting that his lawsuit had discussed "public figures" during his cooperation, and that his accounts were corroborated by different witnesses and records.
"Perhaps the DOJ volition name a peculiar counsel to code those individuals that implicate broader nationalist concerns," Greenberg's lawyer, Fritz Scheller, wrote successful a tribunal filing. "Perhaps the DOJ are maestro strategists acold beyond the capabilities of the undersigned. Or possibly the DOJ is similar Nero fiddling distant arsenic Rome burns."
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