Rep. Matt Gaetz hires high-profile New York lawyers as sex trafficking probe heats up
Chris Sommerfeldt
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has hired a couple of high-powered New York lawyers to represent him as the Justice Department digs into allegations that the embattled Sunshine State Republican paid for sex with a teenager.
Gaetz, who vehemently denies the disturbing allegations, hired the lawyers, Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kirshner, to mount a “fight” against the federal prosecutors investigating him, a spokeswoman for the lawmaker said Friday.
“Matt has always been a fighter. A fighter for his constituents, a fighter for the country, and a fighter for the Constitution. He’s going to fight back against the unfounded allegations against him,” the spokeswoman said, adding that Mukasey and Kirshner “will take the fight to those trying to smear his name with falsehoods.”