Jack Corrigan is KOA’s voice of the Colorado Rockies. We’ll talk about yesterday’s press conference announcing the team’s new director of operations, Paul DePodesta, and some interesting remarks by owner Dick Monfort: Rockies CEO Dick Monfort says ‘I’m not as bad as anyone thinks I am’
Rockies intro DePodesta, Dick Monfort signals he’ll step back from baseball ops
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Wolf said the girl’s parents were divorced and one lived at the homeless shelter, where she and her siblings would stay when that parent had visitation rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The girl initially worked at McDonald’s to make extra money and lied about her age to make an account on the website SeekingArrangement.com, which is commonly used by older men to connect with younger women for "sugar daddy/sugar baby" relationships. The girl reportedly met Seminole County tax collector \u003cstrong>Joel Greenberg\u003c/strong>, a friend and political ally of Gaetz, through the website in 2017. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Greenberg reportedly paid her $400 for an initial meeting on his boat and gave her ecstasy for the first time. Greenberg reportedly had sex with the then-17-year-old seven times for money, which included paying extra for her to take ecstasy during intercourse, according to court records, and brought her to a party at the home of former Florida legislator \u003cstrong>Chris Duckworth\u003c/strong> where, according to the ethic’s panel, there was "substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz had sex with [the girl]," having later paid her $400.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The report stated that, at the time, “she was 17 years old, and he was 35. 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