The media helpfully pointed that out Congressman Matt Gaetz’s original financial disclosure form for 2020 was deficient, omitting his book for Bombardier Press, FIREBRAND. The amended disclosure is odd in a number of respects. For starters, Gaetz indicates he has lost money on the book so far: Paying his previously unacknowledged ghostwriter Todd Seavey $35,000, while declaring receipt of $25,000 from the publisher. Gaetz writes that he has a “profit participation agreement” providing him 60 percent “of all profits received by publisher” on a quarterly basis. The savvy congressman indicates his “agent” was Republican operative Sergio Gor, who helped himself […]
