the individual and whether, “if you engaged in any sexual activity with the individual, did she ever indicate to you that she expected payment for engaging in sexual activity with you?”[1] Rather than answer the questions, Representative Gaetz asserted incorrectly: “You ask, in part, whether I’ve had sex with a list of adult women over the past seven years. The lawful, consensual, sexual activities of adults are not the business of Congress.”
Many of the women interviewed by the Committee were clear that there was a general expectation of sex. One woman who was paid more than $5,000 by Representative Gaetz between 2018 and 2019 told the Committee that “99 percent of the time that [Representative Gaetz and I] were hanging out, there was sex involved.”[2]
Text messages obtained by the Committee show that Representative Gaetz would also ask women to bring drugs to their rendezvous, in some instances requesting marijuana cartridges and repaying the women directly, but in other cases requesting “a full compliment [sic] of party favors,” “vitamins,” or “rolls.”[3] Representative Gaetz sent one woman several hundred dollars for marijuana cartridges.[4] One woman stated that, with respect to a 2018 Bahamas trip, “[M]yself and [Representative Gaetz’s then-girlfriend] brought drugs with us, and I do know that Matt supplied [his then-girlfriend] with money.”[5] Another woman said that she brought cocaine to at least one event with Representative Gaetz and that she witnessed him taking cocaine or ecstasy on at least five occasions.[6] Mr. Greenberg told the Committee that he would typically provide drugs, such as ecstasy, for events he attended and Representative Gaetz would pay him back in cash. Several other women observed Representative Gaetz to be under the influence of drugs.[7] Additionally, nearly every witness interviewed observed Representative Gaetz using marijuana.[8]
ii. Selected Interactions
Based on the evidentiary record, the Committee identified at least 20 occasions from the beginning of 2017 through the middle of 2020 where there was substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz met with women who were paid for sex and/or drugs. The Committee also received testimony related to multiple additional events, trips, or parties where Representative
- ↑ See Appendix A (emphasis added).
- ↑ Id. See also 18(a) Interview of Woman 13 (“Matt Gaetz paid me for sex, that was the extent of our interaction.”); 18(a) Interview of Woman 5 (“it was understood . . . that [sex for money] was the arrangement.”).
- ↑ Exhibit 4; Exhibit 5. Woman 5 explained that “rolls” referred to ecstasy. See also Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel, Drug Enforcement Administration (July 2018), https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.pdf (listing “vitamin E” and “rolls” as slang for ecstasy/MDMA/molly). The Committee was not able to determine how and when Representative Gaetz paid for “party favors” such as ecstasy and cocaine.
- ↑ See Personal Venmo Account #1; 18(a) Interview of Woman 5.
- ↑ 18(a) Interview of Woman 5 (also noting that she (Woman 5), Representative Gaetz’s then-girlfriend (Woman 1), or Mr. Greenberg would typically supply drugs).
- ↑ 18(a) Interview of Woman 6.
- ↑ See, e.g., 18(a) Interview of Woman 4 (stating, for example, on one occasion Representative Gaetz was “talkative, sexual[] . . . he stayed up late, like probably the whole night with everybody” and that the “appearance of his face, eyes” were indicators of his having taken ecstasy); 18(a) Interview of Woman 5 (stating that on a different occasions Representative Gaetz “exhibited signs of being on ecstasy”).
- ↑ See, e.g., 18(a) Interview of Woman 3; 18(a) Interview of Woman 4; 18(a) Interview of Woman 5; 18(a) Interview of Woman 7; 18(a) Interview of Individual 1; 18(a) Interview of Christopher Dorworth.
