“Joel Greenberg, the former Florida tax official whose criminal case led to a sex trafficking investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty Monday to six of the charges against him and acknowledged that he plans to FULLY cooperate with federal investigators.”-@NBCNews
“Greenberg, in shackles wearing a jail jumpsuit and a blue surgical mask, admitted his guilt to six of the 33 charges that had been filed against him — identity theft, stalking, wire fraud, conspiracy to bribe a public official and sex trafficking of a minor.”-@NBCNews
“Greenberg's plea could spell trouble for Gaetz, a Republican who is an outspoken supporter of Trump. Federal officials are looking into whether Greenberg and Gaetz used the internet to find women they could pay for sex and whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a minor.”
“Greenberg, a married father of two, admitted to having spent over $70,000 in 150 transactions to pay women for sex from 2016 to 2018. One of the women was under 18 ‘for part of the time’ Greenberg paid her for sex acts ‘with him and others,’ he acknowledged in court filings.”
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My spirit animal Martin Sheil weighs in on today’s Tom Barrack news.
Sheil, a former I.R.S. criminal investigator and money laundering expert, has the hot take: “Don’t these bad boys ever learn?
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“I guess Barrack and Manafort were too busy back in the day talking about how to beat tax evasion when they were kibitzing about campaign contributions on Tom's yacht off Greece to get around to talkin about filing FARA.”-Marty Sheil theguardian.com/world/2017/may…@guardian archives 2/
“The authorities got into Manafort's finances when investigating the former president's old campaign manager for failing to file FARA and that soon led to Tax Fraud, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering charges et al.”-Martin Sheil 3/
FROM 2016: “The allegation—that Putin had used his position as head of the Russian intelligence service to destroy video evidence of himself having sex with underage boys—was “the climax” of a..feud between Alexander Litvinenko and Putin.” thedailybeast.com/alexander-litv…@thedailybeast
“He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenceless..an innocent boy and a nice boy. I tell you honestly, I just wanted to stroke him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. There is nothing behind it.” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…@DailyMailUK
“…reports he was left with a childless man when his real mom’s husband rejected her “b*stard” son…”