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Gaetz ‘Extortion’ Figure's Levinson Obsession

Former USAF Intel officer Bob Kent raised $250,000 from 'ex-CIA' circles in aborted rescue plan years before approaching Trump Republican's father

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Apr 01, 2021
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The mystery man at the center of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz’s charges that he was the target of an extortion scheme to make sex trafficking charges go away is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer with business interests in the Middle East who has been obsessed for years with rescuing former FBI agent Robert Levinson from Iran.

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