Another Beggs and Lane attorney is listed as the agent for an Alabama real estate company called Alford Properties, formed in 2019. Documents filed with the Florida secretary of state show that Beggs and Lane is the registered agent on the companies, which were created between 20, and are currently inactive. The two are connected through at least four of Alford’s old companies, where McGee’s firm served as an agent: Alford Family Holdings LLC Alford Family Holdings II and III LLC and International Soccer Institute LLC. The elder Gaetz also said he was supposed to wear one to an upcoming meeting with another person involved in the scheme, the fraudster Stephen Alford. Then on Wednesday afternoon, Don Gaetz-Matt’s father and a former Florida state senator worth hundreds of millions of dollars- told Politico that he wore a wire to a meeting with McGee. In an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show on Tuesday night, Gaetz named McGee as one of the parties in the scheme. Gaetz quickly hit back, denying sexual contact with anyone underage, and saying cryptically that he was the target of a plot to extort $25 million from his family. Prosecutors did not confirm or deny the Times report, but the Washington Post also reported that there is, indeed, a federal investigation of former President Donald Trump’s brash ally under way. The bizarre chain of events began unraveling on Tuesday night with a report in The New York Times that federal prosecutors were investigating whether Gaetz (R-FL) had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paid for her to travel-which could amount to sex trafficking. Also named in the scheme: Stephen Alford, a convicted fraudster who McGee has represented-both in court and in business matters. The document dubbed “Project Homecoming” stipulated that Gaetz would deposit money for Levinson’s ransom in an account connected to the firm of Florida lawyer David McGee, who has represented the Levinson family for years. The site also obtained an email sent to Don Gaetz’s lawyer by federal prosecutors that suggests they were looking into whether a crime was under way. The Washington Examinerobtained a document that was allegedly presented to Don Gaetz by the ex-military official, Bob Kent, that laid out the purported scheme. Matt Gaetz took a stunning turn Wednesday with the news that a former Air Force intelligence official and a Florida lawyer tried to get the congressman’s dad to cough up $25 million that would be used to free American Bob Levinson from Iranian custody-and somehow release Gaetz from a federal sex-crimes investigation.Īnd if that wasn’t enough, here’s one more strange fact: Levinson was declared dead last year. Others who approached Don Gaetz have said in news reports that they wanted to free Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran more than a decade ago.The scandal swirling around Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father is Don Gaetz, a former president of the Florida Senate. 6.Īuthorities said Alford was part of a scheme to get $25 million from a person identified in court records as “D.G.” In exchange, Alford said he could secure a pardon from then-President Donald Trump for a family member or get the Department of Justice to drop an investigation into the family member, as well as fund the release of a someone identified as “R.L.” The trial of Stephen Alford, 62, is now scheduled for Dec. Meanwhile, in Pensacola, a man accused of orchestrating the extortion plot linked to Gaetz’s federal sex investigation pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court. “If this is potentially going to take down a big fish, and the government thinks there is something to it, they want time to get as much information and verify it as well,” Hill said.
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