fraudster and sex trafficker goal greenberg who you remember is the former florida tax collector and one-time close confidante of florida congressman matt gaetz. he has been cooperating in a federal investigation into the alleged activities of matt gaetz for a long time. now, after many months of silence in that case there is major breaking news today that could signal where the investigation is actually heading. gaetz s exgirlfriend, whose name is being withheld by nbc fuss. to protect her privacy gave testimony today to a federal grand jury after months of talks of an immupity deal for her. her testimony indicates gaetz is moving closer to being indicted with three crimes including sex trafficking. gaetz has they are been charged with any crime and denies all
represents so much peril for matt gaetz, katie? well, because, nicolle, sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. you know, mark really kind of succinctly talks about some of the credibility problems that the federal government may have with some of its key witnesses in a case for prosecution against matt gaetz. joel greenberg, the professed wing man of matt gaetz, he pled guilty the lying and fraud and basically a lot of crimes that speak to his lack of truthfulness. and so you want to get witnesses when you are prosecuting a case that are hopefully above this type of reproach. in this instance, one of the three crimes that the grand jury is looking at concerning matt gaetz is an obstruction of justice charge of. it s the idea that during this 2021 call did matt gaetz and his exgirlfriend participate in some kind of witness taemperring, this idea that they were trying to prevent the prosecution or
the other thing in the journal that again this is isn t my reporting. i ll take the journal face value. exboyfriend says she can t be believed. she took out an injunction against him and had an ugly fight. everything she said was wrong and menacing to him and harassing. can t take her seriously. first of all i don t think the boyfriend has any credibility whatsoever. this is a guy that is engaged in fraud. and found to have commit td fraud. he used her resume to obtain jobs without her knowledge and found out and subsequently fired. i m not here to cast aspersions for the next ten minutes about her boyfriend. i m sure if you went to my exgirlfriend they wouldn t speak to kindly about me. and the same thing about you although you are one of the nicest people i have met in the my life. we know your judgment is flawed by the last statement alone. this is what fairness demands.
one place. because they come out a new day with more surprising ones. the fifth one already recanted. it looks like an attempt at a sir kis. circus. i m last word. if this were a democrat appointee. a nominee. and republicans were running the senate. i have no doubt they would have exerted every effort to get to the truth. and subpoenaed mark judge. they re trying. they re not. @exgirlfriend of mark judge said she s willing to talk. they haven t subpoenaed mark judge. the least amount possible to check the box. and lock like they did something. they want to get this vote through. and the american people are hon to it. we ll see tomorrow.