As a part of the agreement, Greenberg admitted to paying an excess of $70,000, with a credit card belonging to the Tax Collector’s Office, over a two-year period to women, whom he met online, in exchange for sex. One of those women was 17-years-old.
Greenberg will also have to forfeit more than $650,000 in assets that he obtained through illegal measures.
Magistrate Judge Leslie R. Hoffman said his sentence will be handed down likely within the next two to three months.
Since March, federal prosecutors have been investigating whether Gaetz and Greenberg paid underage girls or offered them gifts in exchange for sex. Greenberg s plea makes no mention of Gaetz, who has vehemently denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
Rep. Matt Gaetz did pay for sex with an underage girl, 17 , claims wingman Joel Greenberg in leaked confession letter sent to Trump ally Roger Stone
Matt Gaetz so-called wingman Joel Greenberg allegedly penned a letter confessing that the pair paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl
The alleged letter is said to have been given to Roger Stone in a bid to get a pardon from then-President Donald Trump
One purported message from Stone indicates Gaetz had privately turned on Greenberg and had advised Stone not to secure the pardon for Greenberg
Another message from Greenberg allegedly said he had been pressured to flip and cooperate with prosecutors
Democrats demand Matt Gaetz be removed from the Judiciary Committee after leak of wingman s confession that he paid for sex with a girl, 17
Matt Gaetz so-called wingman Joel Greenberg allegedly penned a letter confessing that the pair paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl
The alleged letter is said to have been given to Roger Stone in a bid to get a pardon from then-President Donald Trump, according to claims in US media
One purported message from Stone indicates Gaetz had privately turned on Greenberg and had advised Stone not to secure the pardon for Greenberg
Another message from Greenberg allegedly said he had been pressured to flip and cooperate with prosecutors
Federal investigators are focused on Matt Gaetz Bahamas trip in 2018
Sources said Gaetz took the trip with marijuana entrepreneur Dr Jason Pirozzolo
Trip involved several young women
Investigated as potential effort to influence the lawmaker
Pirozzolo paid for the travel expenses and female escorts, sources have said
Investigators are allegedly looking into whether the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or international lines for the purpose of sex with Gaetz
Gaetz introduced medical marijuana legislation in the House
Gaetz has denied allegations against him and prosecutors have not charged him
Gaetz s complaints about Iran hostage scheme will not distract FBI probe: source
By Mark Hosenball
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal investigation into whether U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz trafficked a minor for sex will not be derailed by his assertion that a veteran asked his father for money to pay for the release of an American held by Iran, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said.
Investigators believe the purported scheme to free Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, lacked credibility, the source said. Another U.S. official familiar with the case noted that Levinson s family in March 2020 publicly accepted U.S. government assessments that he died in Iranian custody.