Florida Bar lets Matt Gaetz off the hook by agreeing statutory rape has nothing to do with practicing law



Matt Gaetz

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

The Florida Bar downplayed a congressional finding that Matt Gaetz, President Trump’s first choice for U.S. Attorney General, committed statutory rape before it abandoned his prosecution.

Within the space of two months last year, a Bar grievance committee took preliminary steps toward investigating Gaetz, then used an unorthodox excuse to avoid following through, his Bar file shows. The file, which under Bar rules will disappear from public view within months, was released last week at Florida Bulldog’s request.

“It’s an embarrassment to the legal profession and I think the Florida Bar should be embarrassed because for the system to be respected, it has to be applied evenhandedly,” said Lisa Lerman, professor of law emerita at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Lerman agreed to review the Gaetz Bar file for Florida Bulldog.




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