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    Former GOP operative Anton Lazzaro has been sentenced to 21 years in prison following his conviction of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in return for sex.

    Lazzaro was handed the sentencing on Wednesday after he was found guilty in March of seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five 15 to 16-year old girls in 2020. Lazzaro was 30 years old at the time.

    The Associated Press reports US district judge Patrick Schiltz saying that Lazzaro only showed sympathy to two individuals throughout the trial – "to himself and Jeffrey Epstein,” the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.

    “It’s almost as if Mr. Lazzaro set up a sex trafficking assembly line,” Schiltz said, adding that he was struck by the “soulless, almost mechanical nature” of how he took advantage of the girls.

    On Wednesday, one of the victims spoke in court, saying, “I still see him in my nightmares, in my panic attacks, in men in their thirties. ... Putting Tony behind bars will save so many girls.”

    A mother of another different victim told Lazzaro, “The damage you caused my daughter, mentally and emotionally, you didn’t just cause that damage to her. You caused it to me and my family and all these victims and all of their families,” she said. “You stand up here and you don’t even care. You’re justifying your actions. ... I hope you rot in hell,” the Associated Press reports.

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