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Matt Gaetz's associate Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years for sex trafficking and other crimes [1]
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Date: 2022-12-01
On Thursday, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell handed down the sentencing verdict in an Orlando courtroom, based on a plea deal with Greenberg that collected together all of the numerous charges of election corruption, fraud, sex trafficking, and drugs.
The Orlando Sentinel puts the total number of crimes that Greenberg has been charged with since he was first arrested in June 2020. Six of those charges were subsequently dropped, and in the end, Greenberg pleaded guilty in May of last year to six federal charges, “including sex trafficking of a minor, stalking, identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official,” in exchange for his guilty plea and cooperation with prosecutors in other cases.
Greenberg was known to host wild parties with attendees like Rep. Matt Gaetz. One attendee of Greenberg’s parties told The Washington Post these events had “sex, drugs — whole lot of it.”
Greenberg’s lawyer, Fritz Scheller, told reporters out front of the courthouse that he was “disappointed” so far “by a number of prosecutions that haven’t been brought.” When pressed further on what kinds of cases Scheller thought his client had helped potentially create, he said, “I think that there’s a number of prosecutions that can be brought in the area of the SBA fraud, the bribery and kick-backs, election fraud, and the sex cases.”
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