Matt Gaetz names former DOJ official he says tried to extort his family for $25 million
by Jake Dima, Breaking News Reporter & Daniel Chaitin, Breaking News Editor |
| March 30, 2021 08:55 PM
| Updated Mar 30, 2021, 09:20 PM
Rep. Matt Gaetz named the former Justice Department official he claims is trying to extort $25 million from his family.
David McGee, an attorney with Beggs & Lane, is the man the Florida Republican named during an appearance Tuesday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in which he responded to reports that he is under federal investigation over a former relationship.
McGee served for six years as the first assistant at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and for seven years as the lead attorney for a Justice Department's Organized Crime Task Force, according to his biography on the website of his law firm, which is based in Pensacola, Florida.
Neither McGee nor Beggs & Lane immediately returned the Washington Examiner's requests for comment.
The New York Times first reported Gaetz, 38, is being looked at as part of a broader investigation into local Florida official Joel Greenberg, a political ally who was indicted last summer on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a minor and financially supporting people in exchange for sex, at least one of whom was an underage girl.
Greenberg, who was Seminole County tax collector, pleaded not guilty to all charges and was jailed this month for violating the terms of his bail. He is set for a court date in Orlando in June.
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