Man Gets Five Years In Attempt To Extort Gaetz Family

The Northwest Florida News reports:

Niceville resident Stephen Alford will serve 63 months, or just over five years, in federal prison for attempting to extort $25 million from Don Gaetz, a former state Senate president and father of Florida’s First District Congressman Matt Gaetz.

The plan to extort money from the Gaetz family, spelled out in documents filed with the U.S. District Court, involved Alford and others coming to them with a complicated scheme.

Alford and his team said they could save Matt Gaetz from going to prison for any role he might have played in crimes for which he is being investigated, including sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl. In return, multi-millionaire Don Gaetz would front $25 million that would be used to free a man held for years by agents of the government of Iran.

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NEW: A judge just handed down five-year sentence for Stephen Alford, the man who tried to defraud Matt Gaetz’s family out of $25 million and promised to make the sex trafficking investigation go away. (That investigation is ongoing.) Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/FoXISjSJMb

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