Gaetz accuser in prison for making false sex-with-minors accusation: report

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The House Ethics Committee report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz reportedly relied on information from a source even the Department of Justice had previously found to be lacking credibility.

Editor-in-chief at The Federalist Mollie Hemingway looked into the details of the Gaetz allegations, revealing that the very foundation was rotten from day one. The left has long believed the former Florida representative is guilty of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors and President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Gaetz to the position of Attorney General only strengthened the desire to ruin him personally and politically. Leftists have pushed for the release of the ethics committee’s investigation results into these heinous allegations, but according to Hemingway, it’s also important to look into the source.

“The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues,” she wrote in the November piece. “Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general.”

While Gaetz has since withdrawn from consideration for Attorney General, the bloodlust is still palpable.

“The two witnesses have massive credibility problems. The claims arose from Joel Greenberg, ‘one of the most corrupt Florida politicians of all time,’ according to Florida reporter Marc Caputo, who is now with the anti-Trump media outlet The Bulwark,” Hemingway wrote.

“Among many things, the former Seminole County tax collector admitted to as part of a wide-ranging case for which he is currently serving 11 years in prison was falsely accusing local political opponent Brian Beute of having sex with a minor, similar to the outlandish claim he made against Gaetz,” the report continued. “Greenberg also reportedly later attempted to frame his own attorney with pornographic images of children. One New York Times writeup of Greenberg was headlined, ‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector.’”

Per a report from the Washington Post, Greenberg eventually admitted to “fabricating allegations against a schoolteacher who was running against him to be a tax collector. Greenberg had sent letters to the school falsely claiming the teacher had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student — a similar allegation to the Gaetz case.” Even Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell described Greenberg’s actions against his innocent victim as “downright evil.”

Even the DOJ, which many have accused of becoming weaponized and politicized, couldn’t go forward with the claims against Gaetz and closed out their investigation in 2022.

But the House Ethics Committee wasn’t going to let that get in the way of their report.

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A little-noticed lawsuit from 2023 gives some insight into Greenberg and two women involved in the scheme against Gaetz. Greenberg alleges one of these women had sex with Gaetz when she was a minor. The other woman is her longtime roommate and friend, two years older, who has reportedly corroborated her friend’s claims.

The crime spree Greenberg was convicted of included charges related to his ongoing sexual relationship with the 17-year-old. He met her on a site for older men with money and younger women needing money who are prepared to have sex with older men. The practice matches “sugar daddies” with “sugar babies” and is considered a form of prostitution. The woman lied about her age when she registered on the site, and the married Greenberg maintains he was not aware she was a minor when he began having sex with her.

After begging Gaetz for a pardon that never came, a vengeful Greenberg began hurling unsubstantiated allegations at not just Gaetz but other local businessmen. “Greenberg was paying the legal bills of Gaetz’s accuser. He allegedly lied about Gaetz to ‘reduce his own prison sentence,’ according to the lawsuit,” Hemingway reported.

“The latter claim was supported by a September letter from Gaetz to the House Ethics Committee. Gaetz revealed a letter from a jailhouse informant who shared a holding cell with Greenberg when Greenberg admitted ‘making stuff up about’ Gaetz as part of a plan to lighten what could have been as much as a 27-year sentence in federal prison. He was eventually sentenced to 11 years for his role in sex trafficking, identity theft, public corruption involving taxpayer money and contracts, stalking, and securing fraudulent federal business loans,” the piece continued.

“The woman is referenced in news reports and legal documents as ‘A.B.’ A 2023 lawsuit from Chris Dorworth, a former Florida state representative and friend of Gaetz, reveals that Greenberg said A.B. performed deviant acts on the internet for money and ‘would do whatever he said because he was paying her legal bills.’ He even sent a text message to Dorworth confessing he was paying for her legal bills,” Hemingway noted.

“The younger woman has gone on to be an ‘active participant’ on OnlyFans and has appeared in pornographic videos under a stage name, according to the lawsuit. News reports claim she told the House Ethics Committee the same information she told the DOJ before it closed the investigation on the grounds she and Greenberg had credibility problems. Judge Presnell referred to the woman as ‘essentially a prostitute.’”