The woman who was allegedly paid by Florida Republican Congressman and aspiring sexual-harassing Fox host Matt Gaetz as an underage sex trafficking victim accused a friend of Matt’s of rape in her response to his defamation suit, and she’s got the receipts to show her contacts with the man, the Daily Beast reports.
One-time speaker-designate of the Florida state house Chris Dorworth alleges charges that he slept with the woman, then a 17-year-old girl, were false and part of a plan to protect Gaetz’s friend Joel Greenberg. Dorworth’s convoluted conspiracy obviously was not successful as Greenberg was sentenced to 12 years in prison; Gaetz was not charged because federal prosecutors determined the likelihood of conviction was low given Greenberg’s lack of credibility as a witness.
The woman, identified as “A.B.” in court documents, included numerous communications with the Republican lobbyist, and in her response to Dorworth’s lawsuit, her lawyer included documents including a pardon request Greenberg sent to the Trump White House in 2020 where he repeatedly mentioned a “prominent lobbyist for Ballard Partners”–Dorworth’s firm–who hosted parties where Gaetz and other men had sex girls who were being trafficked.
“On more than one occasion this underage individual was involved in sexual activity with several of the other females at the house, myself and also the congressman from Florida’s panhandle,” Greenberg wrote in the pardon request, admitting that he paid several of the girls on who had had sex with Gaetz, questionably asserting, “None of us would have ever engaged in any type of relationship with this individual had we known the truth about her age.”