Hacker gets access to 'damaging' Matt Gaetz files with testimony 'from woman who was 17 when they had sex'
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A hacker is said to have gained access to a trove of damaging files related to Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. Attorney General, former congressman Matt Gaetz, including testimony from a woman who claims they had sex when she was 17.
A file of 23 exhibits related to allegations against Gaetz, 42, were accessed by a man using the pseudonym Altam Beezley, The New York Times reported.
The documents are said include sworn testimony from two witnesses at the center of the lurid claims against Gaetz.
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