Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:40 PM
babylonsister (170,203 posts)
Rep. Matt Gaetz's Associate Joel Greenberg Gets 11-Year Prison Sentence
Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Associate Joel Greenberg Gets 11-Year Prison Sentence FLORIDA MEN The former Florida tax official, now a prolific government witness, pled guilty to sex trafficking of a child, wire fraud, and stalking—but avoided 27 other criminal charges. Jose Pagliery Political Investigations Reporter Published Dec. 01, 2022 12:13PM ET Joel Greenberg, the corrupt Florida tax official who tried to reduce his jail time by telling the FBI that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) paid for sex with a teenage girl, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The hefty sentence comes close to the decade-plus prison time that federal prosecutors requested—and didn’t seem to give credence to his value as a government witness in a dozen other investigations into the fraud and corruption. Greenberg turned his suburban Florida tax office into a small-time criminal operation. He used his position of authority to prey on young women, play a gun-toting cosplay cop, run government computers to mine cryptocurrency, hire his friends as top managers, and give an Instagram model a no-show job. But it wasn’t until he was running for re-election and tapped a shadowy network of Republican operatives to slander a political opponent that he was finally caught. snip// But none of these cases is as big as the one that has yet to be filed: underage sex trafficking charges against Rep. Matt Gaetz. more... https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-rep-matt-gaetzs-associate-joel-greenberg-gets-11-year-prison-sentence?ref=home
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 Rep. Matt Gaetz's Associate Joel Greenberg Gets 11-Year Prison Sentence (Original post) |
babylonsister | Dec 2022 | OP |
| Deuxcents | Dec 2022 | #1 | |
| allegorical oracle | Dec 2022 | #13 | |
| RockRaven | Dec 2022 | #2 | |
| OAITW r.2.0 | Dec 2022 | #3 | |
| getagrip_already | Dec 2022 | #16 | |
| JT45242 | Dec 2022 | #4 | |
| blm | Dec 2022 | #6 | |
| Jvp | Dec 2022 | #9 | |
| rubbersole | Dec 2022 | #10 | |
| certainot | Dec 2022 | #8 | |
| Hortensis | Dec 2022 | #11 | |
| FBaggins | Dec 2022 | #15 | |
| getagrip_already | Dec 2022 | #17 | |
| marble falls | Dec 2022 | #5 | |
| lark | Dec 2022 | #7 | |
| onetexan | Dec 2022 | #14 | |
| Evolve Dammit | Dec 2022 | #12 | |
| spanone | Dec 2022 | #18 | |
| Vinca | Dec 2022 | #19 |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:45 PM
Deuxcents (10,073 posts)
1. CNBC has a show called American Greed n they featured him
Response to Deuxcents (Reply #1)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:09 PM
13. Saw that show twice. Wondered where the case had gone. Eleven years doesn't seem enough. He
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:45 PM
2. IIRC, one of those counts he pleaded guilty to had a ten year mandatory minimum... nt
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:51 PM
OAITW r.2.0 (18,440 posts)
3. So Gaetz isn't out of the woods yet?
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:55 PM
4. probably not much in the way of cooperation... to get that sentence
Response to JT45242 (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 02:12 PM
blm (111,055 posts)
6. Wasn't DeSantis at some of those 'parties'?
Response to blm (Reply #6)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 03:55 PM
rubbersole (3,830 posts)
10. And reportedly other "prominent" Orange County republicans.
Response to JT45242 (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 02:56 PM
certainot (9,090 posts)
8. maybe he'll give em up after a year or two, finding out they didn't deliver his own cell with
Response to JT45242 (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 03:57 PM
Hortensis (55,612 posts)
11. He's such a nasty, dysfunctional creep, I strongly suspect
Response to JT45242 (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:24 PM
15. Or they didn't think they could get a conviction
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 01:57 PM
marble falls (47,684 posts)
5. That's what he gets for not delivering Matt.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 02:19 PM
lark (22,180 posts)
7. Think Death Sentence is deep in the cover up of this.
Response to lark (Reply #7)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:22 PM
14. I hope to Goodness they are implicated somehow
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:07 PM
Evolve Dammit (14,160 posts)
12. avoided 27 additional charges?? Must have given up something good. nt
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:40 PM
spanone (133,334 posts)
18. ...and gaetz walks free.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:46 PM
Vinca (49,165 posts)
19. I thought Gaetz was home free. I remember being really pissed about it.
