An attorney representing two women who testified before the House Committee on Ethics about Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz said Monday that both his clients stated under oath that the former Republican congressman paid them for sex — and one saw him in flagrante delicto with a 17-year-old.
Orlando-based attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News that the ethics committee cross-checked his clients’ stories with Gaetz’s Venmo records, obtained via subpoena.
“They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them,” Leppard told the outlet. “And my clients repeatedly testified, ‘What was this payment for?’ ‘That was for sex.'”
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