{"id":51376,"date":"2021-04-04T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=51376"},"modified":"2021-04-04T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:21:31","slug":"legal-woes-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/legal-woes-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Woes in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be Spring, because all of a sudden there\u2019s a flurry of legal activity in the air.&nbsp; Remember <strong>Benjamin Crosswhite<\/strong>?&nbsp; Let me jog your memory \u2013 he was the \u201cpersonal trainer\u201d to <strong>Jerry Falwell Jr<\/strong>. who was given an 18-acre fitness facility and $650K for \u201cservices rendered\u201d.&nbsp; He\u2019s filed a lawsuit against the <em>Reuters <\/em>media outlet because they referred to him as \u201canother pool boy\u201d.&nbsp; Benji claims their account of the affair caused him \u201cscorn, ridicule, and public humiliation\u201d.&nbsp; One bit of the suit caught my eye \u2013 prior to the <em>Reuters <\/em>report, \u201cBen enjoyed an untarnished reputation as a personal trainer and businessman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next up is a surprising sex scandal involving <strong>Matt Gaetz<\/strong>.&nbsp; I call it \u201csurprising\u201d because nowhere is there any mention of other men, boys, or his \u201cadopted son\u201d.&nbsp; No, believe it or not, the Republican Congressman from Florida is being investigated for an alleged sexual relationship with a teenage GIRL!&nbsp; I know \u2013 shocking!&nbsp; It\u2019s also alleged that Matt paid a 17-year-old girl to \u201ctravel\u201d with him.&nbsp; We hear that the payment could have been in cash, drugs, or a combo platter.&nbsp; Crossing state lines means charges of sex trafficking are being investigated, and Gaetz is being probed.&nbsp; I will suppress the obvious joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be Spring, because all of a sudden there\u2019s a flurry of legal activity in the air.&nbsp; Remember Benjamin Crosswhite?&nbsp; Let me jog your memory \u2013 he was the \u201cpersonal trainer\u201d to Jerry Falwell Jr. who was given an 18-acre fitness facility and $650K for \u201cservices rendered\u201d.&nbsp; He\u2019s filed a lawsuit against the Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51385,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51376\/revisions\/51385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}