For years, former Rep. Matt Gaetz has maintained that his convicted wingman, Joel Greenberg, brazenly lied about Gaetz’s sexual relationship with a teenage girl. But on Wednesday, a newly unsealed document showed that federal prosecutors believed Greenberg was telling the truth.
Greenberg — a former Florida tax official who snitched on his political and business associates in an effort to reduce punishment for, among other crimes, sexually trafficking a minor — is currently serving an 11-year sentence at a federal prison in Miami. Meanwhile, federal prosecutors opted not to criminally charge Gaetz, who quit Congress and now has a show on One America News Network.
But with the Gaetz investigation over, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell this week ordered the unsealing of a November 2022 memo by federal prosecutors detailing Greenberg’s cooperation. Prosecutors state in unequivocal terms that Greenberg helped investigators by twice providing what they determined to be honest testimony.