Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

Nov. 19, 2024 Updated 10:39 a.m. ET


An unidentified hacker has gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to be attorney general, a person with knowledge of the activity said.

The file of 24 exhibits is said to include sworn testimony by a woman who said that she had sex with Mr. Gaetz in 2017 when she was 17, as well as corroborating testimony by a second woman who said that she witnessed the encounter.

The files were downloaded by a person using the name Altam Beezley at 1:23 p.m. on Monday, according to the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly. A lawyer connected to the case sent an email to the address associated with Altam Beezley, only to be informed in an automated reply that the recipient does not exist. The material does not appear to have been made public by the hacker.

The documents include information that is under seal with the Justice Department, which investigated Mr. Gaetz but did not file charges, and the House Committee on Ethics, which has completed its own inquiry into the former congressman. The Ethics panel’s members are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to decide on whether to vote to release material it has gathered.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/matt-gaetz-hack-testimony.html

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[CrispyQ]

1. I've been asking for years, "Where are the hackers for democracy?"

I used to say it as a joke.

[kysrsoze]

3. Yeah, I remember the single nerd in the "Anonymous" videos

NOTHING ever came of that. Apparently there are no ethical/hero hackers… just a bunch of criminals.

[crimycarny]

18. I wish the "Anonymous" online hacking group would get involved

Your comment reminded me of the documentary “Roll Red Roll” where the Anonymous hacking groups involvement in the cover up by adults of some high school football players rape of a minor at a party (who was intoxicated to the point of unconsciousness) got the media involved and it became a nationwide story.

I wish same group would hack the Gaetz files and publish as they did in Roll Red Roll.

[JoseBalow]

22. "Anonymous" is not an organized "group"

It's more like a decentralized pool party

[crimycarny]

27. Um--okay?

Whatever. Whoever Anonymous is, I wish they’d get involved, semantics be d*mmed.

[FakeNoose]

19. A lot of the really excellent hackers are Russian, or trained by Russians

It's hard to find one that cares about democracy or the USA.

[Jit423]

24. The Russians bank their hacked material for use as needed. They let their subjects know that they have the receipts

The Russians know nothing else is necessary to get compliance, just the knowledge that there are receipts out there is enough to keep Trump and his ilk in line. The big question is, how much will Musk pay to keep his receipts locked up in the vault?

[Autumn]

2. Release it or shut the fuck up.

[Mz Pip]

7. Completely worthless

Put up or shut up. These hackers get no respect from me unless they go the final mile.

My generation had Daniel Elsberg.

Be like Daniel.

[JohnSJ]

9. Exactly. Otherwise it is just bullshit.

[Mike 03]

4. Corporate media too chickenshit to publish it

Leak it to one of these up and coming Dem influencers and podcasters like "JoJo from Jerz," "PoliticsGirl," or maybe the Rude Pundit.

[getagrip_already]

11. In this age? You dont need corporate media..

There are still thousands of independent sites that will publish info like this. It doesnt have to start with corporate media.

Maybe they will eventually publish it after everyone from the guardian to al jejera to mother jones does, or maybe they will just put out disinformation to blur the truth.

But the real files can get out. Just send them.

[FakeNoose]

20. It will get leaked anonymously on something like Politico, Reddit or worse

No need to wait for corporate news media to find the balls to do it. We just have to wait ....

[Martin68]

5. Nice to know there are some hackers on our side. The side of Justice and Truth.

[Walleye]

6. Gaetz could have sex in public with a 14-year-old on fifth Avenue and not lose any support

[getagrip_already]

13. I actually saw that once on seventh avenue

I was coming out of a store and some guy was humping a hooker against a railing. She had a long coat wrapped around the two of them so you couldnt see any bits, but you knew what was happening.

The early 70's was a wild time in nyc.

[Walleye]

16. Yeah, New Yawk!. I lived in Manhattan 12 years during the 80s. I saw plenty of shit like that.

I worked at night and walked across Midtown in the wee hours. The hookers gave me a sympathetic look. I could tell their feet hurt as well, never felt scared just to be walking around outside.

[Lulu KC]

30. Yes!

Smartest thing I ever did: 1972 in New York. Age 17. I worked, I lived, I learned. I scared my parents to death. I wouldn't be the same if I hadn't had that year.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. And the Lord said, Do Not despair my children of the blue, for I shall send you

angels, and you shall recognize them for they will be wearing white hats.

[DiamondShark]

10. And this would be the worst outcome.

Replying to the OP text, forgive me for not reading the whole story.

Now they have deniability if the information is shared, same as what happened with the Muller report. This will all get swept under the rug as not credible or worse the information is not as damning.

Not to say we shouldn't see it, this is what the GOP does when they know their guy can't be confirmed by normal means.

[republianmushroom]

12. Seems that 'secure link' is not to secure.

[ananda]

14. Ermm, what's the point of hacking the file...

if they don't release it?

???

[FredGarvin]

15. Source: Jan Brady

[Prairie Gates]

17. The New York Times used to just publish shit like this, which is clearly in the public interest

The guy is nominated for the top law enforcement position in the federal government and appears for all the world to be himself a sex offender. Now they just tell us that they have it. Maybe they'll have an ethical roundtable at the Columbia School of Journalism.

We live in a clown country.

[Orrex]

21. They should get this information to Garland immediately

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So that he can address it in time for 2052 election cycle.

[ancianita]

23. Maybe the hacker will leak the contents to the Senate, so they can't say they didn't know before they recess.

The report will eventually reach the internet. These hacked leaks are just the beginning.

[C Moon]

25. More of this bs. How many times have times have we heard

this kind of thing?
I don’t believe it anymore.

[Ocelot II]

26. So cough it up already, or STFU.

[Sneederbunk]

28. Who cares unless it is published.

[4139]

29. My bet on why DOJ dropped the Gaetz investigation

1. The 17-year-old girl lived in A state with the age of consent is 18.

2. She and Gaetz had sex in a state where the age of consent is 17 or less

3. DOJ could not prove that Gaetz transported her across state lines to have sex. Transporting across state lines is the only way DOJ could be involved.


This is why Gaetz always says he did not have sex with a minor….. Instead of he did not have sex with that 17 year old girl

[moniss]

31. However the Venmo

payments indicate he paid for sex. That's engaging in prostitution and because it seems to have involved the girl being "moved" around it is also trafficking.

[moniss]

32. Since it's the end of November and near

to Thanksgiving that will delay the DOJ action against the hacker. So instead of them having him locked up, on trial, sentenced and in prison by December 15th it will now be December 18th.