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teach1st

(5,966 posts) Thu May 27, 2021, 07:29 PM May 2021

Rep. Matt Gaetz, fiance claim money for St. Pete yacht deal 'went missing'

Rep. Matt Gaetz, fiancé claim money for St. Pete yacht deal ‘went missing’
5/27, WFLA 8, Tampa Bay

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida has sailed into a new controversy, claiming money wired to close the sale on a St. Petersburg yacht his fiancé had agreed to buy “went missing.”

According to a spokesperson for Gaetz, he and his fiancé, Ginger Luckey, were “targeted by malicious actors” during the purchase process of a St. Petersburg yacht. Follow-up questions about the transaction and clarification of the statement have not been answered.

About a week after news broke about the investigation into Gaetz’s potential connection to the sex-trafficking case involving former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, the Republican was spotted with Luckey on a 41-foot yacht docked at Pier 4 at the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina.

Jon Golly, who owns a yacht in a slip across from the one Gaetz and Luckey boarded, is one of several boat owners on the pier who recall seeing the couple during the boat inspection process known as the survey.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz, fiance claim money for St. Pete yacht deal 'went missing' (Original Post) teach1st May 2021 OP

There are people whose lives just swirl with self-inflicted drama and catastrophes. It's usually Scrivener7 May 2021 #1

Under very serious investigation abd he buys a yacht. Bristlecone May 2021 #2

Here's the Unlucky Miss Luckey. CurtEastPoint May 2021 #3

The truth of this should be an interesting story to read someday. nt Baked Potato May 2021 #4

I honestly had to check to make sure this wasn't from the Onion when I saw the name "Ginger Luckey". Guilded Lilly May 2021 #5

Gaetz has a "tell" or so it seems. Like many other right wing grifters when he's busted for doing RockRaven May 2021 #6

Maybe he wired it to the wrong St. Petersburg. OilemFirchen May 2021 #7

Good one! tableturner May 2021 #8

bazinga. hay rick May 2021 #9

Scrivener7

(52,748 posts)

1. There are people whose lives just swirl with self-inflicted drama and catastrophes. It's usually

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 07:53 PM

May 2021

a sign of a scam artist or someone with a real bad substance abuse problem. Or just a run of the mill personality disorder.

That's this guy. Probably all of the above.

Bristlecone

(10,490 posts)

2. Under very serious investigation abd he buys a yacht.

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 07:57 PM

May 2021

Very very suspicious. Sounds like a launder to stash money in case he is sued in civil court later. ‘Cause that is gonna happen.

CurtEastPoint

(19,182 posts)

3. Here's the Unlucky Miss Luckey.

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 08:08 PM

May 2021

She could gnaw his GD forehead off with those chompers.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)

4. The truth of this should be an interesting story to read someday. nt

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 08:19 PM

May 2021

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)

5. I honestly had to check to make sure this wasn't from the Onion when I saw the name "Ginger Luckey".

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 08:45 PM

May 2021

And my petty thought for the day is done.

RockRaven

(16,283 posts)

6. Gaetz has a "tell" or so it seems. Like many other right wing grifters when he's busted for doing

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Thu May 27, 2021, 08:49 PM

May 2021

something wrong, he claims to be a victim in an adjacent matter. With the sex-trafficking minors with Greenberg, he tried to deflect with being a victim of blackmail -- and did so just as the story was breaking.

Now he's deflecting with some yacht money being stolen. Again, "don't look at X, look at this X adjacent thing where I'm really the victim." What's the real, shady, story about him and maybe this yacht that is about to break, hmmm?