By Roger Sollenberger

The Daily Beast

July 16, 2021

 

With the possibility of sex trafficking charges still hanging over him, Rep. Matt Gaetz's latest campaign finance report shows a spate of new legal spending, a massive public relations blitz, and continued payments to one conspicuous MAGA icon: Roger Stone.

Nearly half the embattled congressman's $1.95 million in expenses—a little over $825,000—went to public affairs firm Logan Circle Group, which has handled Gaetz's media strategy since The New York Times first reported in March that he was the focus of an investigation over federal sex crimes. Some of the payments were for "strategic campaign consulting," while others were for "advertising."

But perhaps the most notable strategist Gaetz paid is one who had contact with Gaetz wingman Joel Greenberg as the former Seminole County tax collector sought a presidential pardon.