Florida Man Who Tried To Extort Matt Gaetz Gets Indicted

The Florida man who attempted to extort money from the Gaetz family before the scandal became public has formally been indicted by the authorities. While this doesn't have much to do with the actual investigation into Gaetz's behavior, it does give us a clear picture that all the wheels are moving forward, and there is still plenty of time for indictments to come for the congressman. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Well folks at long last we have another indictment in the Matt Gaetz scandal, but unfortunately it is not Matt Gaetz himself. Nope. It is a man by the name of Stephen Alford, who is no stranger to the wrong side of the law here in the state of Florida and if you think back to the early days of this Matt Gaetz scandal, you might remember the name Stephen Alford because Alford was the individual who attempted to extort the Gaetz family for $25 million. Telling them essentially, give me $25 million, I'll use my connections in the White House to get Matt a presidential pardon for this massive scandal that's going on. You know, he didn't threaten, by the way though, because this kind of runs contrary to what Matt Gaetz had said, this guy wasn't threatening to go out there and tell the story to the press. He wasn't threatening to make things up and make it seem like Gaetz. No, no, no. He was just saying, listen, uh, you got some trouble. I know, I know a guy that might be able to make the trouble go away.

You give me $25 million, everything's cool. And of course that is still extortion. That is definitely illegal. So he has now been indicted by a grand jury. And as I said, this guy is actually no stranger to the wrong side of the law because while he is indicted now for the attempted extortion of Matt Gaetz and his family, uh, he has also already been indicted on charges stemming from a 2015 plan for his alleged efforts to finagle $6 million profit out of a $7 million deal to purchase North Light Marina in Niceville. He also already spent 10 years in prison for attempting to sell land here in Okaloosa that was owned by the United States Air Force. So a lot of fraud in this guy's past. A lot of run-in with the law. And of course now he's got this scandal that he was tied to with Matt Gaetz for being the extortionist and he is being indicted for that. Now this doesn't affect Matt Gaetz in any way. It doesn't exonerate him. It doesn't implicate him any further.

This is kind of a net, you know, nothing really for Matt Gaetz and the scandal and investigation that he is still facing. But to me, what it does is it shows us that things are still moving forward. Okay. This investigation has not gone away. I know it's been quiet, a hell of a lot more quiet than some of us would like it to be, but it's ongoing. All parts of it are ongoing. All extensions of it, like Mr. Alford here and his extortion plot are still ongoing. So Matt Gaetz is not out of the woods yet. Um, admittedly, you know, it's getting a little, little nerve wracking that nothing's happened with this, especially after the last dump of evidence a couple of weeks ago, you know, where Greenberg gave all those thousands of text messages, pictures, emails, videos. It's pretty obvious from the available evidence that, you know, Matt Gaetz was involved to some degree. The question is, is he ever going to be indicted for his role in all of this? It's a question that remains to be answered, but I haven't lost hope just yet.