Rep. Matt Gaetz's Associate Joel Greenberg Gets 11-Year Prison Sentence

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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.

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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.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-rep-matt-gaetzs-associate-joel-greenberg-gets-11-year-prison-sentence?ref=home

[Deuxcents]

1. CNBC has a show called American Greed n they featured him

He deserves every minute in jail. As to Gaetz, if he was in any trouble, I think we’d know by now

[allegorical oracle]

13. Saw that show twice. Wondered where the case had gone. Eleven years doesn't seem enough. He

singlehandedly abused a public office to the extreme. Watch Gaetz skate free 'cause he's in Congress. Enough to make me lose faith in our justice system.

[RockRaven]

2. IIRC, one of those counts he pleaded guilty to had a ten year mandatory minimum... nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. So Gaetz isn't out of the woods yet?

Seems like Greenberg has a lot of motivation to get his sentence reduced...

[getagrip_already]

16. How do you figure that?

No sentence reduction for evidence offered pretty much means no charges against gaetz.

There will be no press conference or press release. The doj will just quietly go away.

The only way we will know there is any activity is if someone blab after a grand jury appearance or charges are files.

It looks dead from here.

[JT45242]

4. probably not much in the way of cooperation... to get that sentence

If he had given up the goods that would guarantee convictions of Gaetz and other powerful people he likely would have gotten less.

Sounds like he did not deliver much in the way of usable cooperation.

[blm]

6. Wasn't DeSantis at some of those 'parties'?

[Jvp]

9. DeSantis involved?

some people say

[rubbersole]

10. And reportedly other "prominent" Orange County republicans.

Curious minds want to know...

[certainot]

8. maybe he'll give em up after a year or two, finding out they didn't deliver his own cell with

steaks and champaign and a big screen.....

or maybe he's crying now, pissed off they didn't arrange for him to get only 3 like they promised....

[Hortensis]

11. He's such a nasty, dysfunctional creep, I strongly suspect

he would have used anything he had. So my working assumption is that he had no further "goods" of value to give up.

[FBaggins]

15. Or they didn't think they could get a conviction

Either way... the fact that they're no longer delaying his sentencing implies that the September reporting that Gaetz "likely won't face charges" is looking more and more correct.

[getagrip_already]

17. Or, the doj just passed on it....

Even if the evidence offered was solid, if the doj chooses not to use it there wouldn't be a reduction in sentence.

He likely offered up quite a bit, the doj just passed over it.

[marble falls]

5. That's what he gets for not delivering Matt.

[lark]

7. Think Death Sentence is deep in the cover up of this.

Both he and Gaetz are despicable pod people.

[onetexan]

14. I hope to Goodness they are implicated somehow

That Gross Gaetz gets away w this makes me ill.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. avoided 27 additional charges?? Must have given up something good. nt

[spanone]

18. ...and gaetz walks free.

[Vinca]

19. I thought Gaetz was home free. I remember being really pissed about it.

Did I misunderstand something?