Matt Gaetz
Role at the time: Former Republican U.S. representative from Florida and a defendant in the lawsuit, in a written statement
Response to this claim
Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg coordinated the recruitment, payments, drugs and travel used to obtain commercial sex acts from Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 between 2017 and January 2019.
“Much of the conduct alleged against me is false”
Associated Press report on the lawsuit filed by two women against Matt Gaetz, with Gaetz's written response, a description of his post on X the same day and a passage from the complaint attributed to the women's attorney, Spencer Kuvin.
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The reference point is the conduct the two women allege in their lawsuit: that Gaetz and Joel Greenberg paid them for sex and supplied drugs and travel between 2017 and January 2019. Gaetz says much of that conduct is false, which denies the allegations.