Report: Gaetz Used Venmo To Pay Indicted Sex Trafficker, Who Then Sent Cash To 18-Year-Old

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#286

It’s complicated, but I think the state matters a great deal.

There is a federal statutory rape provision (18 USC 2243), but it only applies in the “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” (or in some prisons). That quoted phrase means a lot of things, but generally refers to areas where federal law overrides state law, like military bases. (See 18 USC 7).

So, although someone may be charged with trafficking in the federal court based on federal law and federal age standards, an charge of statutory rape would be based on state law where the act occurred.

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#287

…what condition my tuition was in…

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#288

Could not find that either. I think their nom de plume is a misnomer. :wink:

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#289

Only until the Supreme Court decides that sham candidates, like corporations, have a right to be heard.

/s

#290

An apocryphal story that made the rounds of the courthouse:

Burglary defendant takes the stand in his own defense.
Prosecutor takes the opportunity to bring out his criminal record.

Prosecutor: “How many felony convictions do you have?”
Defendant: “This will be the third.”

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#291

Net Neutrality is a comparative small issue as compared to the NECESSITY of busting up all monopolies controlling broadcast and Internet outlets - particularly AM radio and ZuckerBook (sic). Imposition of fair and balanced programming needs to be brought back along with inclusion of a minimum requirement for public interest allotment. On one’s Internet portal, they ought to be able to check a box and screen out all of the quackery so that all of the CRAP would not be visible, be it on CNN, Politico, HuffPost, The Hill, Sludge Report, TPM, etc. Mental dildoes would be able to uncheck such a box and then be entertained by everything that Plastoid American Styrofoam Inc. has to offer. Get this: a headline today broaches 60 Minutes doing a rightward tilt.

p.s. - Gaetz needs to marry Ms. Greene. It might save his ass amongst the lunatic set.

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#292

And that’s why you never want to see what I think I’m seeing.

#293

Yes! Worse than a party line phone. Why does anyone want to tell all their contacts who they send/receive money to/from.

Baffling indeed.

#294

Apparently an understatement. He also wants to pass his date around to other decision-makers. One theory is that as a lawyer he understood the wrongness of statutory rape, and could use leverage of his knowledge of others engaging in the same behavior or protect himself from retaliation.

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#295

If could spend all the money I paid in taxes on sex… If I could spend all the money given to me by taxpayers on sex… I dread to imagine…

#296

This is a variation of “boys will be boys”. That makes it OK to molest and sexually harass your female comrades. I wasn’t there nor ever will be, but I can guarantee there were men there who did not participate.
A lifetime friend of mine and I were in uniform at the same time, he as a Navy officer, me an enlisted man. I recall him telling me how this behavior creeped him out.

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#297

Gaetz is just an extreme manifestation of the privileged asshole. Ordinarily, his inability to understand the harms of his actions would not be that surprising. But he must have encountered concepts like crime and accomplice liability in his three years at law school. He might have even been required to take a class on professional ethics. It takes a heck of a lot of booze and other drugs to drive such concepts from memory.

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#298

I have 2 legislators and will throw in a governor; no brains, no brawn, and no use to anyone.

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#299

This is a variation of “boys will be boys”. That makes it OK to molest and sexually harass your female comrades.

I couldn’t begin to tell you some of the stories my husband brought home, at that time, as this is a mixed gender platform. Suffice to say that the military females comrades caught the brunt of it, but anything vaguely female was a sitting target.
If you had mothers, wives, sisters, or daughters this stuff was really nasty.

#300

Believe me, I know the meaning of “literally”. With that preface let me say that literally every woman I know or have known has experienced some form of sexual misconduct. Maybe I look like a priest, but women have told me all sorts of unsolicited info on such conduct.

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#301

Knowing these things intellectually has no inhibitory effect on the conduct of this personality type. They have filters for maybe murder and that’s about all.

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#302

July 8
After stay a Rockafella mansion
Progressives went wild
Reversed KEY campaign pledge
Saw HIM in person twice
Shook his hand in may

Maybe you were visiting Pluto at the time?

#303

July 8 After stay a Rockafella mansion Progressives went wild Reversed KEY campaign pledge Saw HIM in person twice Shook his hand in may Maybe you were visiting Mars at the time?

#304

You know, the traditional way to support a claim like this is to provide links to contemporaneous news stories, or perhaps broad retrospectives, in respected publications.

Repeating the same claim – albeit with different planets – isn’t very helpful.

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#305

@bcgister

I can’t but help wondering (suspecting) whether there was also co-pimping going on as well …

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