Investigators said Goetz paid more than $90,000 (£71,843) to the women for sex and drugs, but created a complex web of transactions that were difficult to trace, the report said.
“The committee was unable to fully determine the extent to which Rep. Getz’s payments to the women were compensation for engaging in sexual acts with him,” the report said.
He is believed to have often used his friend Joel Greenberg, who is currently serving an 11-year sentence for crimes he and Goetz committed, and logged into Greenberg’s account on SeekingArrangement.com, which bills itself as a “luxury dating site.” to communicate with young women.
Goetz also paid women directly, sometimes through platforms like Venmo, according to the report. But the committee said he often used another person’s PayPal account or an account linked to an email address with a fake name.
He also hid the payments, the panel wrote. In one example, he gave a college student a check made out to “cash” with “tuition reimbursement” on the memo line. The woman said she received it after a group meeting that “could potentially have been a form of coercion because I really needed the money.”
Goetz posted on social media that he gave money to women he was involved with as gifts rather than payment. The committee found that the two women, aged 27 and 25, did not see their relationship as transactional.
Another woman, believed to be his girlfriend, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked if she had been paid for sex or drugs or to pay others.
The committee tried to prove that Goetz often paid for sex, using evidence such as a text message in which he reportedly refused a woman’s request to send her money after he accused her of “dumping” one night. him. The woman then claimed she was “treated differently” than other women he paid for sex.
In another message, his then-girlfriend said she and Greenberg were “a little tight on cash flow” and asked a group of women “if this could be more of a customer appreciation week.”
A few months later, according to the committee, she wrote: “By the way, Matt also mentioned that he would be a little generous last time for the sake of ‘customer appreciation.’
