Drake Ventures

One expense recent expenditure by Matt Gaetz has raised eyebrows: A $5,000 “strategic political consulting” fee to Drake Ventures, the company belonging to longtime GOP smear artist and Gaetz associate Roger Stone. On Friday April 16 2021, the DOJ sued Stone and his wife, Nydia, alleging that the couple owes millions in unpaid taxes and have used Drake Ventures to shelter more than $1 million. The Gaetz campaign paid Stone’s company on March 24 2021, just days before Gaetz’s father held an in-person meeting with a former DOJ prosecutor