Anton Lazzaro, a Republican strategist who targeted “broken” teenage girls to prey on them for sex, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison on Wednesday.
Lazzaro, a wannabe playboy who led a flashy Instagram lifestyle driving exotic sports cars and waving stacks of cash, was a rising star in Minnesota political circles who funded Republican efforts and even landed himself a spot as an alternate elector for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
“There were photos and videos that Lazzaro took and kept of his victims. But perhaps the most disturbing exchange was when Lazzaro was expecting a group of underage girls—14- and 15-year-old girls he spirited away from a slumber party in the middle of the night, out from under their parents’ noses, to Lazzaro’s home nearly an hour away,” prosecutors wrote to the judge.
Freedland said that when it was Lazzaro’s turn to speak, the convicted sex felon started by addressing the judge directly: “Just wanted to ask you, how’s Brett Kavanaugh?”
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