Meanwhile, her alleged co-conspirator, 19-year-old student Gisela Castro Medina, who attends a Catholic university in St. Paul, Minnesota and heads her school chapter of the Republicans of Minnesota College, was arrested in Florida last Thursday. and is being held in Okaloosa County, which is in the Congressional District of Gaetz. Ironic!
Now the Minnesota Republican Party is scrambling to contain the damage.
A dozen elected officials who have accepted money from Lazzaro in the past rushed over the weekend in statements expressing their extreme shock at all of this and promising to return all the money he gave them to a charity.
Meanwhile, MNGOP president Jennifer Carnahan faces calls for resignation due to her extremely close ties to the alleged sexual predator.
“MNGOP President Jennifer Carnahan must step down immediately,” GOP Senator Roger Chamberlain said in a statement. “The charges against Anton Lazzaro for child sex trafficking are deeply disturbing, disgusting and repulsive, and Carnahan’s close and continuing relationship with him is troubling to say the least. I find it impossible to believe that she was not aware of his activities.
Carnahan’s husband, fiercely anti-Gay US Representative Jim Hagedorn, received Lazzaro’s largest donation. His office just released a statement calling it “deeply disturbing” and saying “no one should be sexually trafficked.” Duh.
So far, Carnahan has refused to resign, saying she was the victim of a smear campaign and that it was a coup attempt to get her ousted from her leadership role.
In December, federal agents pulled up Lazzaro’s luxury condo in downtown Minneapolis, where they discovered $ 371,240 in cash, a convertible Ferrari and nearly two dozen electronics, including 13 cell phones, several laptops and a GPS tracker, as well as several gold bars. and money worth over a million dollars each.
Lazzaro’s attorney, Zachary Newland, released a statement saying his client had been “falsely accused” and “eager to clear his reputation”.
Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
