Greenberg admitted to making more than 150 transactions totaling more than $70,000 to arrange liaisons with young women he met through a sugar daddy website. Through that site, he met a 17-year-old girl with whom he met at hotels and engaged in criminal sex acts at least seven times in 2017. He and the girl often used the drug Ecstacy. Greenberg also introduced the minor to other adult men, who engaged in criminal sex acts with the minor, his plea agreement states.
Investigators are attempting to determine whether Gaetz was one of those adult men.
The Daily Beast has reported on a letter Greenberg had written to presidential adviser Roger Stone seeking help in getting a pardon from then-President Donald Trump. In the letter, Greenberg referenced the congressman from Florida s 1st Congressional District being involved in sexual activities with several of the other girls.
During the hearing, Hoffman asked Greenberg dozens of yes or no questions pertaining to his understanding of the agreement, the facts of the case and his competency. She went through each of the six counts, and each time, Greenberg responded, Guilty.
After the hearing, he was taken back into custody by U.S. marshals to await his sentencing, which is expected to be sometime in early August.
Professing guilt is first step
About two hours after the hearing, Scheller took about two dozen questions from reporters but avoided making the kind of splash he had in early April after announcing Greenberg was cooperating with authorities.
Hausu Mountain
Sharkula x Mukqs = Best Available Technology + Lil B
Take Caution on the Beach though no less loose or unhinged than its predecessor feels like a refinement of the style Chicago-based musicians Sharkula (
Brian Wharton) and Mukqs (
Max Allison) teased out on their first collaborative release, 2019’s
Prune City. The MC (Sharkula) and the producer (Mukqs) both possess a style awash in eccentricity to the point of absurdity, and the combination of the two makes for outsider hip-hop unlike most. Mukqs’ production sputters and glitches through a web of lo-fidelity synthesizers and treats the rhythmic grid like a loose suggestion, his samples and loops warping and stretching between and beyond bar lines.