Evidence reviewed by the Committee shows that, on several occasions, Representative Gaetz met with the woman who corresponded with Mr. Greenberg in these messages; he continues to follow her on social media and has paid her more than $2,000 since late 2018.
The Committee received evidence indicating that the 20-year-old woman in the above messages joined Mr. Greenberg and Representative Gaetz at a hotel in Florida less than two weeks after her initial encounter with Representative Gaetz. The Committee’s record indicates that Representative Gaetz also invited another woman who he regularly paid for sex to meet him at the hotel, without disclosing to her that others would be present. The other woman, who was 21 years old, had recently asked the congressman for his help with her tuition. She recalled that Representative Gaetz agreed and told her to meet him at that hotel room, where he would provide her with a check, which, according to the woman, “was interesting because he had normally sent Venmo payments.”[2] When she arrived to pick up the check, she found Mr. Greenberg and the 20-year-old woman present. The 21-year-old woman told the Committee there was an “expectation” of a “sexual encounter.” The four of them had sex and afterwards Representative Gaetz gave her a $750 check made out to cash with “tuition reimbursement” in the memo line, which she deposited the next day to help pay her tuition.[3] The 21-year-old woman told the Committee she believed that the encounter “could potentially be a form of coercion because I
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