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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother witness in Matt Gaetz's trafficking case is cooperating against him.
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Breaking: A key witness in the sex trafficking case against Matt Gaetz has pleaded guilty. In exchange, he has promised to fully cooperate with prosecutors. His attorney told The Daily Beast that he has been cooperating against Gaetz.
thedailybeast.com
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty
The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingmans best friend.
7:47 AM · Jan 26, 2022
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Breaking: A key witness in the sex trafficking case against Matt Gaetz has pleaded guilty. In exchange, he has promised to fully cooperate with prosecutors. His attorney told The Daily Beast that he has been cooperating against Gaetz.
thedailybeast.com
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty
The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingmans best friend.
7:47 AM · Jan 26, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-shock-jock-joe-ellicott-in-matt-gaetz-circle-pleads-guilty
Big Joe Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock with potentially key information about the sex trafficking ring involving Rep. Matt Gaetz, has pleaded guilty in federal court, The Daily Beast has learned.
Ellicott is the long-time best friend of corrupt Florida tax official Joel Greenberg, who was Gaetzs wingman in the underage sex operation, according to several sources with direct knowledge of their relationship. Last year, The Daily Beast revealed that Ellicott knew intimate details about the teenage girl who was paid for sex by the groupand actually texted what essentially amounted to a confession that they were scrambling to try and coverup details about their sex with a 17-year-old from the feds.
Ellicott was particularly legally exposed through his involvement with Greenberg, who ran the small Central Florida tax agency like a fiefdom where he hired his friends for no-show jobs. That appears to be what took Ellicott down.
In court documents last week, Ellicott was accused of fraud for agreeing to pay bribes and kickbacks to a public official and a separate drug crime: illegally selling the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder prescription medicine Adderall. On Jan. 18, Ellicott signed a plea agreement admitting to both crimes.
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Another witness in Matt Gaetz's trafficking case is cooperating against him. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2022
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Good. I hope charges against that scumbag get filed eventually. Also is the "shock" that guys face?
JanMichael
Jan 2022
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JanMichael
(24,891 posts)1. Good. I hope charges against that scumbag get filed eventually. Also is the "shock" that guys face?
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)2. YEAH BABY
GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Another brick in the wall for the bads
grumpyduck
(6,262 posts)4. Hired for no-show jobs?
That sounds like money laundering.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)5. Maybe They'll Charge Him By The Turn Of The Century nt
Sur Zobra
(3,428 posts)6. This!
Will an indictment of this criminal really ever happen
crickets
(25,983 posts)7. Fantastic.
Wow. That's a lot of immunity Ellicott's being offered. Sounds like somebody actually is trying hard to get the case against Gaetz. GOOD.
Joel Greenberg, who was Gaetzs wingman in the underage sex operation
Also, pimp of underaged girls is not a wingman. Yeesh, it's so creepy the press keeps soft pedaling with that word.
mitch96
(13,925 posts)8. I wonder what the GOP is gonna do when lots of their elected officals get indicted of crimes?
I mean it looks like a bunch of the who's who in the repuke party are gonna get exposed...
Is the Jan6 insurrection going to get some senators and house members a "go to jail" card?
I hope this mantra of "no one is above the law" has a fist in it's glove...
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SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)9. What Will We Do When They Don't?
AMERICA!!
mitch96
(13,925 posts)10. It will show the bad guys they can get away with it!!!
Like no recourse when TFG lies his ass off...
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lame54
(35,324 posts)11. There should be a chart that says...
The pile of evidence against you must be this high for you to be indicted