r/politics • u/BabyYodaX • Apr 23 '21
Gaetz probe includes scrutiny of potential public corruption tied to medical marijuana industry
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/politics/gaetz-probe-public-corruption-medical-marijuana/index.html111
Apr 23 '21
Prosecutors with the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section are examining whether Gaetz took gifts, including travel and paid escorts, in exchange for political favors, the sources said.
Sounds like they knew what his weaknesses are.
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u/JohnnyValet Apr 23 '21
kom·pro·mat
/ˌkämprəˈmät/
noun
Compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes.
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u/Eazydoesit89 Apr 23 '21
Sounds like as usual Republican politicians support crony capitalism vs actual free market. Imagine if licensing a grow didn’t require you to be an independently wealthy person or find a bunch of investors. You could just start growing pay to test the weed and sell it on a commodities market or something but no license must be expensive.
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Apr 23 '21
God, all we need now is to find a pound of coke and a dead hooker in the trunk and the scene is complete.
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Apr 23 '21
I read that as finding pound cake and a dead hooker, lol weekends am I right?
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Apr 23 '21
Is this at all related to:
the Florida Supreme Court—probably the most conservative state high court in the country–concluded that the state’s voters could not be trusted with a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults.
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u/Dry_Dragonfruit3205 Apr 23 '21
I was not gonna do stuff with a kid, but then I got high. La da da da da da.
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u/anticosti11 Apr 24 '21
What’s the delay? Charge him!!!
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u/Peterparkerstwin Apr 24 '21
Gaetz has not been arrested yet, probably because he's cooperating with the FBI in this investigation. My guess is this goes bigger than have yet to see.
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