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NYT: Matt Gaetz Is Said to Be Investigated Over Possible Sexual Relationship With a Girl, 17. Wrap it up. Gaetz likely to avoid charges. Gaetz former ally sentenced to 11 years.

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Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz

 

When Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) beat his primary challenger Tuesday, he delivered a speech to family and friends predicting an easy repeat victory in November that would allow him to remain with “Republicans with a will to fight and a backbone.” There was, predictably, no mention of the underage sex trafficking investigation that could one day be catastrophic to his political career.

 

That federal probe that generated national attention for a few weeks last year has since quieted down. But it’s not over.

 

Eight people with direct knowledge of the probe confirmed to The Daily Beast that the case is still unfolding—albeit at a methodical pace—as federal prosecutors work their way across a number of spokes of possible criminality. While each zone has its own sets of witnesses, subjects, and targets, all of it spirals out from one man: a crooked local tax official and Gaetz’s former “wingman,” Joel Greenberg.

 

Lyle Mazin, a criminal defense attorney who represents a witness in the case, told The Daily Beast that the quiet should not be misconstrued as reluctance on the part of Roger Handberg, a federal prosecutor who led the local team conducting the investigation and now leads the Florida Middle District U.S. Attorney’s Office.

 

“He’s methodical. He doesn’t let anything go,” Mazin said. “If you’re going after a monster, you have to get it right—especially when you have a bunch of Trump supporters who’ll come after you.”

 

No one who spoke to The Daily Beast believes that the Gaetz probe was closed, and defense attorneys for witnesses and subjects who have recently enjoyed a quiet season said they expect to hear from prosecutors again. Some have struck agreements for advance notice of charging decisions.

 

A Gaetz spokeswoman did not return a request for comment. Gaetz flatly denies all allegations of wrongdoing.

 

One bizarre turn in the Gaetz saga ended Monday after a federal judge handed down a five-year prison sentence to Stephen M. Alford, a Florida man who attempted to defraud the Gaetz family. Alford somehow caught wind of the sex trafficking probe and promised Gaetz a presidential pardon, which Alford knew he could not deliver, if the family would shell out $25 million to allegedly spring a U.S. hostage held in Iran.

 

The investigation into Gaetz himself is only one item in an expanding queue. The probe of Greenberg alone has uncovered so many layers of public corruption in Central Florida that investigators have had to peel them apart one by one: illicit real estate deals; embezzlement of federal COVID-19 paycheck assistance; a local Republican scheme to run “ghost” candidates; a public corruption plot involving a number of powerful state figures; and ultimately the sex trafficking investigation involving the congressman himself.

 

In another signal of the investigation’s scope and progress, three sources told The Daily Beast that prosecutors turned their attention to Tallahassee this spring. According to the sources, this previously unreported action involved interviews with possible witnesses and subjects in connection to another spoke of the Gaetz case—an alleged public corruption scheme to influence marijuana policy, said to involve state officials.

 

Gaetz is also reportedly part of that inquiry. There, federal prosecutors with the DOJ’s public integrity unit are reportedly examining whether a group of men provided gifts including marijuana and prostitutes during a 2018 trip to the Bahamas in exchange for political favors.

 

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My guess is Gaetz won't be charged until after the election, and possibly not until after Greenberg is sentenced on Dec. 1.

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Yes, Gaetz knows how much people in the US like cocaine...

 

Rep. Matt Gaetz Snorted Cocaine With Escort Who Had ‘No Show’ Gov’t Job

 

Can you imagine how punchable that face would be if he was all coked up?

 

I mean he already looks like Beavis and Butt-Head had a baby together, but add tweaked out eyes and a tightly clenched jaw to the mix... It's enough to make you want to start shopping for used aluminum baseball bats at the local thrift stores.

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8 minutes ago, Fan since a Fetus said:

I don’t think someone should take care of him like a fictional movie character. 
 

I’d rather his demise be more real and at his own hands, Buddy Dwyer style. That way no one gets arrested. Antifa can’t be blamed. Biden can’t be blamed. Radical lefties can’t be blamed. 
 

Only himself will be to blame. He won’t do it because he doesn’t have a conscience. He has no morals. So therefore, he won’t feel bad enough about himself to do it.

 

I'm not sure what timeline you're living in, but in this one if Gaetz offed himself, the GQP disinfomation machine would be telling everyone the Clintons did it before his forehead turned cold.

 

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So is he trying to lure teen gamer girls by streaming on Twitch?

 

Matt Gaetz draws only six viewers to his inaugural Twitch stream

 

Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz announced last week that he would be throwing his hat into the online streaming ring and starting his own Twitch channel.

 

So far, his peak viewership has been six people.

 

Those who have followed him to the streaming site don't appear to be fans.

 

VICE News reports that after his inaugural livestream on Thursday — a 30 minute chat touching on the Capitol riot, right-wing conspiracy subject Ray Epps, and "wokeism" in schools with former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie — Mr Gaetz left his chat running while he was offline.

 

This is common for Twitch streamers — many will allow their chats to stay active when they're not streaming, and some continue to participate with their communities offline. However, Mr Gaetz's viewers took the opportunity to slam him and leave vulgar ASCII images in the chat, including many depicting male genitals.

 

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Federal prosecutors request lenient sentencing for ex-Seminole tax collector Joel Greenberg

 

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge for a reduced sentence for disgraced former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg because of his help in other prosecutions and investigations.

 

On Thursday, prosecutors filed a motion asking the judge for a reduction in the sentence for Greenberg’s most serious offense involving child sex trafficking. That charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.

 

The government’s motion did not specify the exact prison sentence it is recommending.

 

Greenberg faces an additional, 2-year mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated identity theft, and he could potentially receive decades of additional prison time for four other federal charges to which he’s pleaded guilty.

 

Prosecutors added Greenberg’s assistance led to charges against two other people, Michael Shirley and Joseph Ellicott, in a kickbacks scheme.

 

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Federal prosecutors request lenient sentencing for ex-Seminole tax collector Joel Greenberg

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Maybe I missed it, but what other prosecutions has he helped? Helping in 'other investigations' should only help Greenberg if the investigations lead to other people getting convicted. Since the big fish Gaetz has been able to escape prosecution (so far) Greenberg shouldn't be given any break in his sentencing...

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Maybe I missed it, but what other prosecutions has he helped? Helping in 'other investigations' should only help Greenberg if the investigations lead to other people getting convicted. Since the big fish Gaetz has been able to escape prosecution (so far) Greenberg shouldn't be given any break in his sentencing...

 

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Prosecutors added Greenberg’s assistance led to charges against two other people, Michael Shirley and Joseph Ellicott, in a kickbacks scheme.

 

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Court Docs Rip Into DOJ for ‘Fiddling Away’ on Matt Gaetz Case

 

The Florida lawyer who gave the feds a mountain of evidence documenting Rep. Matt Gaetz’s alleged sex crimes says the Department of Justice—which has yet to prosecute the congressman—is “like Nero fiddling away as Rome burns.”

 

In a court filing Monday night, the attorney representing a key government witness in the sex trafficking investigation finally put into writing a scathing criticism of the DOJ’s inaction.

 

The rare and aggressive move calls out the DOJ for trying to destroy the life of a local corrupted tax official who snitched on his buddies—Joel Greenberg—but not pursuing a criminal case against the popular, rich Republican congressman who allegedly took part in the drugs and paid for sex with a teenager.

 

Greenberg’s defense lawyer, Fritz Scheller, ripped into the high-level public corruption prosecutors at DOJ headquarters, suggesting that the case might be better handled locally.

 

“The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida is the only DOJ office to have brought multiple prosecutions based on Greenberg’s cooperation,” he wrote. “Perhaps the DOJ will return the prosecutions to the capable hands of U.S. Attorneys in the Middle District or the State of Florida.”

 

Greenberg used his stint as the elected Seminole County tax collector to enrich himself and turn the office into a criminal enterprise, hiring friends for no-show jobs and rewarding government contracts in exchange for kickbacks. Since his arrest, he’s pleaded guilty and helped local police and federal agents uncover illicit real estate deals, embezzlement of federal COVID-19 paycheck assistance, and a local Republican scheme to run “ghost” candidates.

 

Greenberg also gave federal law enforcement a ton of damning evidence on Gaetz, sitting for hours with them to answer questions about their rendezvous with girls, according to two sources with knowledge of those sessions.

 

The Daily Beast exclusively obtained a confession letter Greenberg wrote explaining how Gaetz used him as a middleman to pay for sex with young women and at least one underage girl. The Daily Beast also obtained Greenberg’s non-public Venmo payments, which reflect that arrangement. In one instance, Gaetz paid his pal $900 and wrote “hit up ___” in the memo field, referring to the teenage girl who they started seeing when she was underage.

 

In Monday’s court filing, Scheller openly questioned why the DOJ was coming down so hard on his client but not the congressman, noting that the feds have all the evidence they need. He criticized how prosecutors want to maximize Greenberg’s time behind bars by citing “deterrence” while totally ignoring the politician.

 

“If the government is so concerned with general deterrence, then why hasn’t it prosecuted the other individuals, including public figures, who were also involved in Greenberg’s offenses?” he asked.

 

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