-— Daily Beast: According to Joel Greenberg’s confession letter, in September 2017, Greenberg called his friend Matt Gaetz and told him that a teenager both men had paid to have sex with was underage (Link)

— Tampa Bay Times: Joel Greenberg told federal investigators he had witnessed Matt Gaetz having sex with the 17-year-old (Link)

  —New York Times: “Joel Greenberg, the former confidant of Representative Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Orlando to a range of charges, including sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl, as part of a plea deal that will require him to help in other Justice Department investigations” (Link)

—  New York Times: “Mr. Greenberg has told federal authorities that he witnessed Mr. Gaetz have sex with the 17-year-old girl and that she was paid” (Link)

—   New York Times: Joel Greenberg told investigators that Matt Gaetz had sex with the girl and knew that she was being paid (Link)

—  Daily Beast: In December 2020, Joel Greenberg texted a political operative, “My lawyers that I fired, know the whole story about MG’s involvement. They know he paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage” (Link)

— Joel Greenberg texts: “[Matt Gaetz] absolutely has to know that the sex charge they hit me with would be what they would hit him with (Link)

— Daily Beast: In two late-night Venmo transactions in May 2018, Matt Gaetz sent Joel Greenberg $900. The next morning, over the course of eight minutes, Greenberg used the same app to send three young women varying sums of money. In total, the transactions amounted to $900 (Link)

— Daily Beast: “But that new information apparently didn’t scare Gaetz or Greenberg off from the teen. The Daily Beast previously reported about a Venmo payment from Gaetz to Greenberg about eight months later, where Gaetz asked his friend to ‘hit up’ the teen. She had turned 18 just five months prior to that Venmo transaction, and Gaetz was 36 at the time—twice her age” (Link)