“The Committee’s star witness, Joel Greenberg, is a felonious liar who involves others in his lies,” Gaetz wrote in a September post on X, which he called his “final response” to the ethics probe.
“On July 10, 2024, I provided the Committee dispositive evidence of my innocence by producing a ‘smoking gun’ contemporaneous, jailhouse writing, documenting the plot to frame me, which includes both Joel Greenberg and his victim. This was authenticated by two former federal agents who interviewed the jailhouse informant who revealed the plot against me,” he added.
Greenberg, a former local tax official in Florida, pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, including sex trafficking, in May of 2021.
As part of the plea deal, Greenberg admitted that he recruited women for commercial sex acts and paid them more than $70,000 from 2016 to 2018, including at least one underage girl – who was the woman who told the ethics panel that Gaetz had sex with her as a minor, ABC News reported.
Greenberg’s plea deal states that the woman “represented that she was an adult” when she met him but that he “acted in reckless disregard” and had a “reasonable opportunity to observe” that she was under the age of 18 when he trafficked her for sex.
By leaving Congress, Gaetz, 42, is no longer subject to the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee – ending the probe and denying the panel the opportunity to release its findings – but several senators have demanded to see the panel’s report on Gaetz before the upper chamber deliberates on whether to confirm him to the cabinet post.
“The Committee’s star witness, Joel Greenberg, is a felonious liar who involves others in his lies,” Gaetz wrote in a September post on X, which he called his “final response” to the ethics probe.
“On July 10, 2024, I provided the Committee dispositive evidence of my innocence by producing a ‘smoking gun’ contemporaneous, jailhouse writing, documenting the plot to frame me, which includes both Joel Greenberg and his victim. This was authenticated by two former federal agents who interviewed the jailhouse informant who revealed the plot against me,” he added.
Greenberg, a former local tax official in Florida, pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, including sex trafficking, in May of 2021.
As part of the plea deal, Greenberg admitted that he recruited women for commercial sex acts and paid them more than $70,000 from 2016 to 2018, including at least one underage girl – who was the woman who told the ethics panel that Gaetz had sex with her as a minor, ABC News reported.
Greenberg’s plea deal states that the woman “represented that she was an adult” when she met him but that he “acted in reckless disregard” and had a “reasonable opportunity to observe” that she was under the age of 18 when he trafficked her for sex.
By leaving Congress, Gaetz, 42, is no longer subject to the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee – ending the probe and denying the panel the opportunity to release its findings – but several senators have demanded to see the panel’s report on Gaetz before the upper chamber deliberates on whether to confirm him to the cabinet post.
No wonder the ADL don't like him. The dirty tricks didn't work on him.