Sex Trafficking

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A Florida politician who is a central figure in the federal sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.

Today, Gaetz’s connections to the medical marijuana industry in Florida and its key players are emerging as a possible legal and political threat to him.

Maxwell pleaded not guilty Friday to sex trafficking conspiracy and a sex trafficking charge that were added in a rewritten indictment filed last month in Manhattan federal court.

The often outlandish, Trump-styled provocateur appears increasingly isolated amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation.

Gaetz, who represents parts of western Florida, is accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paying her to travel with him, and he is under investigation to determine if he violated federal sex trafficking laws.

Financier and socialite Jeffrey Epstein was charged a year ago with procuring a girl for prostitution and died in his jail cell by apparent suicide in August.

Epstein killed himself in a federal detention center in New York last summer.

Representatives of Maxwell have not responded to requests for comment.

A Washington man pleaded guilty Monday to trafficking girls for sexual activity, according to federal court records. David Peter Vier, who was arrested in Little America after a multi-state manhunt in January, entered the plea to the two-count indictment before U...