Dunno if this got mentioned:

Matt Gaetz trip to Bahamas is part of federal probe into sex trafficking, sources say

Federal investigators are looking into a Bahamas trip Matt Gaetz allegedly took in late 2018 or early 2019 as part of an inquiry into whether the Florida representative violated sex trafficking laws, multiple sources told CBS News.

Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts, the sources said.

Investigators are trying to determine if the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or international lines for the purpose of sex with the congressman.

“Traveling across state lines is what creates a federal hook for a prosecution,” Arlo Devlin-Brown, a former prosecutor and partner at Covington & Burling, said in a report that aired on the “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.” “It doesn’t matter that [Gaetz] personally paid them as long as he knows someone is doing that.”

The Justice Department declined to comment. Pirozollo did not respond to repeated attempts to contact him, and declined to comment on his relationship with Gaetz and whether he paid for escorts for him when asked by CBS News on Wednesday outside his office in Orlando.

cbsnews.com

That bolded part is important—while the Mann Act (aka the “White Slavery Act”) has been severely limited over the 110 years it’s been on the books, it is still illegal to transport a person over state or international lines for the purposes of prostitution. And it does not matter the age for this.

(The Mann Act also includes a portion where taking an underaged person across state lines for sex is a felony. Jack Schaap, a pastor from a huge Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Indiana is serving a 10 year sentence for taking a 16 YO over the state line from Indiana to Michigan.)

ETA: the byline for the article includes four people, starting with Major Garrett, so it’s kind of a big journalism deal.