ORLANDO, Fla. — An ex-girlfriend of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has agreed to cooperate in a sex-trafficking investigation into the Florida congressman, according to a CNN report, giving federal authorities a second key witness days after former Gaetz ally Joel Greenberg struck a plea deal.
The report described the woman as a former staffer on Capitol Hill seen as a “critical witness,” because her involvement with Gaetz stretches back to the summer of 2017. The report was sourced to unnamed ”people familiar with the matter.”
According to Greenberg’s plea deal, which requires him to cooperate with investigators, Greenberg , a former Seminole County tax collector, spent more than $70,000 between December 2016 and December 2018 on more than 150 transactions, “all of which involved Greenberg paying women for commercial sex acts.”
