Former federal prosecutor says Gaetz would fail background check for entry DOJ job

https://thehill.com/regulation/national-security/4994238-harry-litman-matt-gaetz/

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would fail a background check for an entry-level role at the Department of Justice (DOJ), a department President-elect Trump tapped Gaetz to lead this week.

Litman, a former U.S. attorney, argued that “thousands of professionals” at the DOJ could not be hired “if they did what Matt Gaetz is accused of doing.”

“Joel Greenberg [is] rotting in jail for the same thing Matt Gaetz did. Eleven years in Florida. What does he have on him that he can blackmail? What girls, minor or not, can come forward about their drug-fueled orgies, every single one that Matt Gaetz denies,” Litman said during his Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes.”

“What else was he doing, you know, bragging on the [House] floor, showing pictures of sexual conquest? For character in national security, there is zero, zero chance that anyone who had done that, much less what a background investigation would turn up,” he continued. “They go cradle to grave, could even get the first step toward an appointment at the lowest professional level of the Department of Justice, not to mention attorney general.”
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