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Matt Gaetz staffer reportedly resigned amid the growing scandal over a DOJ investigation into the congressman. The New York Times first reported last week on the apparent sex trafficking investigation. Gaetz has denied the allegations against him and said that he and his father were targeted in an extortion plot. Luke Ball resigned. A statement from the Florida congressman’s office said, “The Office of Congressman Matt Gaetz and Luke Ball have agreed that it would be best to part ways. We t...

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger said on Thursday night Gaetz must go  Kinzinger is the first Republican to call for Florida congressmans resignation Gaetzs legislative director, Devin Murphy, was reported Thursday to have quit He followed press secretary Luke Ball out the door on Friday Gaetz, 38, is reportedly being investigated for sex trafficking and prostitution  His associate Joel Greenberg, 36, is in jail on 33 federal charges Greenberg is said to be cooperating and readying to tak...

Matt Gaetz is also reportedly under scrutiny over alleged Florida ghost candidate skulduggery The federal investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), said to center on possible sex-trafficking violations and sex with a 17-year-old girl, has branched out to include a trip to the Bahamas with well-connected GOP allies and allegedly paid female companies plus whether Gaetz was involved in running a third-party "ghost" candidate in a state Senate race to help an associate, Gaetz has denied paying f...

Kim Jong Un likens North Koreas economic troubles to catastrophic 1990s famine North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday compared his countrys economic struggles to the devastating 1990s famine that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The Korean Central News Agency reports that while speaking to lower-level Workers Party of Korea members, Kim said there are "many obstacles and difficulties ahead of us," and its up to everyone in the WPK to "wage another ... arduous march in order to re...

The news from Kinzinger comes after The New York Times first reported last week that the Department of Justice was investigating Gaetz over an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and accusations that he paid for her travel.  Gaetz told The Hill on Friday that he has no plans to resign, saying rumors that suggested otherwise were "false" and that it was "very safe" to say he had no intentions of doing so. Several of Gaetzs critics on the left, including former Rep. Katie Hill ...

The president directed the Justice Department to propose rules to make “ghost guns,” homemade weapons without a serial number that are more difficult to track, subject to background checks; to propose model “red flag” legislation for states that could help law enforcement keep firearms out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals; and to reclassify pistols modified with stabilizer braces to be subject to the National Firearms Act. The Department of Justice is also expected to i...

Matt Gaetz fallout: 2 staffers quit, GOP congressman calls for him to resign Updated 8:00 AM; Today 8:00 AM In this Feb. 26, 2021, photo, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.,, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) Facebook Share Two staffers have quit their jobs with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) as he faces allegations of sex trafficking and sex with a minor. The New York Times reports Gaetz’s legislative director Devin Murphy left th...

Ting Shen/Pool via AP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Rep. Matt Gaetz "needs to resign" in a tweet Thursday. Kinzinger also linked to a story about money Gaetz reportedly sent to an accused sex trafficker. Kinzinger is the first GOP lawmaker to call on Gaetz to resign amid a sex-trafficking investigation. In a tweet on Thursday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger became the first Republican lawmaker to call on his colleague Rep. Matt Gaetz to resign over sex-trafficking allegations. "Ma...

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Rep. Matt Gaetz needs to resign amid sex-trafficking investigation kvlamis@insider.com (Kelsey Vlamis) © Ting Shen/Pool via AP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) speaks during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2021. Ting Shen/Pool via AP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Rep. Matt Gaetz "needs to resign" in a tweet Thursday. Kinzinger also linked to a story about money Gaetz reportedly sent to an accused sex trafficker...

April 9, 2021 8:34 a.m. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) is calling on fellow House Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) to resign amid a federal investigation into allegations that he had sex with an underage girl and may have violated federal sex trafficking laws. “Matt Gaetz needs to resign,” Kinzinger tweeted Thursday night, linking to a Daily Beast report that indicated the Florida congressman had allegedly made Venmo payments to young women presumably for sex, through his as...