Rep. Matt Gaetz‘s future continues to look bleaker, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Last month, a federal judge once again agreed to postpone sentencing for Gaetz’s former wingman, Joel Greenberg, after he pleaded guilty to six federal charges last year, including child sex trafficking, aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and stalking.
The judge agreed to keep an upcoming mid-May status report sealed after prosecutors argued it would protect sensitive information about ongoing investigations. The assumption is that Greenberg will continue helping investigators who are looking into whether Gaetz paid to have sex with a high school student. In exchange, Greenberg will receive a more lenient sentence.
Joyce Vance, who served as a United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017, certainly thinks this could spell big trouble for the antigay lawmaker.
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“This can mean other things, but most often, it means work with a cooperating witness is proceeding & it is productive,” she commented on Tuesday, adding, “Not good for Gaetz.”
This can mean other things, but most often, it means work with a cooperating witness is proceeding & it is productive. Not good for Gaetz. https://t.co/0eukUfaySm
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 29, 2022
Earlier this year, Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testified before a federal grand jury, leading many to believe the Department of Justice is getting close to indicting him.
Multiple sources claim Gaetz’s ex tagged along with him and his alleged 17-year-old lover on a trip to the Bahamas in 2018. CBS News also reports that investigators are looking into whether the embattled lawmaker obstructed justice when he had a secret phone call with the ex and another woman.
Gaetz denies any wrongdoing.
ZzBomb
For all their “protect the children” bs and obsession with pedophiles, the calls are definitely coming from inside the house in the GQP.
Cam
Countdown to the right wing troll account coming in here screaming “RED WAVE” to deflect from criminal Republicans. LOL
CNY1983
The Melania video squad, working for the hoard.
white-queer-african
@Cam, fortunately M*ntalMayer is back on the crack. That or it’s “transition meds” has had a contra indicator effect? So all the screennames have gone quite!
Let’s hope it is permanently. Can’t deal with it’s banal comments about the ted wave, Hunter Biden being locked up. President Biden being demented.
It, M*ntalMayer and all it’s screennames, is the only demented one on Queerty!
white-queer-african
Correction. Before I get lectured, again by Professor MM, it should read “red wave”.
Maybe it will be her delayed….
jt1990
Cam I’ll admit, Matt Gaetz gives me the creeps. Not just the sell you some bs used car salesman vibe most politicians give off; something about his face just screams psycho two-faced kiddy fiddler. Half the time it almost appears he’s wearing some type of mask or heavy makeup. Like you might see on a corpse at an open-casket funeral. That 17 year old most certainly wasn’t consenting. The only surprise here is the kid wasn’t a decade younger…
Prax07
I don’t get why all this type of thing takes so damn long. Just arrest him already.
Brian
Agreed. If he weren’t a powerful millionaire, he’d be in jail already. Instead, he’s continuing to vote on laws that the rest of us have to follow.
Fahd
Queerty is my source for keeping up with the latest developments in the Gaetz case.
OhHellNo
Greenberg is stalling. He’s had time to act out what Gaetz did for prosecutors in real time, for Christ’s sake.
scotty
so matt gaetz was the rep who asked madison cawthorn to P&P? never saw that coming. sarc/off
scotty
my aplogies for leaving out lindsay g, MTG, josh hawley, lauren bobert, jared kushner, Melania & TFG, don jr and eric (ewwwww) and last and definitley least..rudely ghouliani. have a wonderful rest of your day with that image in your minds eye.
FrankLee MyDear
It was in June 2021 when the story was that Gaetz was gonna be indicted as early as July 2021.
Gaetz should be old news by now.
Really wish he was old news. It’s tiring to read what might occur to him when it doesn’t seem to come true. Brings up a lot of distrust to media that reports this and to any form of Justice System that should be handling this.
Leo
I am with you on this. What is the holdup?
ggore
20 years from now, while Gaetz is sitting, drooling in a nursing home, Queerty and other sites will be running the same “having a bad week” and “charges being readied” articles while no charges have yet been filed. I’m over it.
TomG
Gaetz is your normal repukelican….deny, deny, deny, even if it’s 100% true.