Indicted Gaetz Associate Is Said to Be Cooperating With Justice Dept
Source: New York Times
A former local official in Florida indicted in the Justice Department investigation that is also focused on Representative Matt Gaetz has been providing investigators with information since last year about an array of topics, including Mr. Gaetz's activities, according to two people briefed on the matter. Joel Greenberg, a onetime county tax collector, disclosed to investigators that he and Mr. Gaetz had encounters with women who were given cash or gifts in exchange for sex, the people said.
The Justice Department is investigating the involvement of the men with multiple women who were recruited online for sex and received cash payments and whether the men had sex with a 17-year-old in violation of sex trafficking statutes, people familiar with the inquiry have said. Mr. Greenberg, who is said to have met the women through websites that connect people who go on dates in exchange for gifts, fine dining, travel and allowances and introduced them to Mr. Gaetz, could provide investigators with firsthand accounts of their activities. Mr. Greenberg began speaking with investigators once he realized that the government had overwhelming evidence against him and that his only path to leniency lay in cooperation, the people said.
He has met several times with investigators to try to establish his trustworthiness, though the range of criminal charges against him -- including fraud -- could undermine his credibility as a witness. Mr. Greenberg faces dozens of other counts including sex trafficking of a minor, stalking a political rival and corruption. He was first indicted in June. The Justice Department inquiry drew national attention in recent weeks when investigators' focus on Mr. Gaetz, a high-profile supporter of President Donald J. Trump who knew Mr. Greenberg through Republican political circles in Florida, came to light. Speculation about Mr. Greenberg's cooperation began mounting last week, after his lawyer and a federal prosecutor both said in court that he was likely to plead guilty in the coming weeks.
"I'm sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today," Fritz Scheller, Mr. Greenberg's lawyer, told reporters afterward. The United States attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida is leading the investigation, which is examining not only whether Mr. Greenberg, Mr. Gaetz and others broke sex trafficking laws but also whether Mr. Gaetz paid for women over the age of 18 to travel with him to places like the Bahamas. A Justice Department spokesman and a lawyer for Mr. Greenberg declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/joel-greenberg-matt-gaetz.html
This is an update on what was reported last week - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142725897
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That means he was likely wired when talking/texting his, uhmmm, associates long before this thing came up for air.
Set, game, match. Prosecution. 
I love the smell of qop pedophiles coming to justice. They talk the talk, but prison has it's own rules of the walk. They especially don't like pedo's. This won't be a golf course pen for them if that's the charge.
The stuff was like Mad Magazine on steroids... 
If she is a smart little gold digger, she will marry him now and take control of what money he has stashed away. He won't be needing it.
Even Roger Stone was spouting and spewing and defying a federal Judge's gag order after his indictment, until she threatened to revoke bail and throw his ass in jail... so he finally shut his trap (although obviously was later pardoned). This one has no "pardon" coming (that we are aware of).
And he already has a "prior" so... 
... all in due time. All in due time. It won't be long now. These things must be done delicately.
