Two More Greenberg Associates Indicted As His Sentencing Is Pushed Back Until Spring

     Joel Greenberg is most noted for being a human trafficker and an associate of U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, with whom he had drug-fueled parties with teenagers across the United States. However, this was just the tip of the iceberg for Greenberg's activities. He pled guilty to six charges in May and faces 12 years to life in federal prison, but he was initially charged with 33 crimes. Among these were theft, SBA loan fraud, cryptocurrency fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Furnishing his despicable lifestyle required despicable acts of fraud, I guess.

     Greenberg was initially scheduled to be sentenced in August but asked for his date to be pushed back until October. Now, Greenberg has succeeded in getting his sentencing pushed back until March 2022. Let's get one thing clear: this is bad news for his co-conspirators, potentially including Gaetz. Greenberg was, without dispute, the ringleader, and they are letting him push back his sentencing again and again; the feds don't do this unless they believe they are getting meaningful information to build a case against others. Greenberg doesn't have any reason to lead the feds on either; cooperation is the only thing that is giving him a chance at seeing the light of day again. It's not like pushing back sentencing helps him, either. He has been behind bars since his guilty plea, and he will not be let out until he has served his sentence in its entirety. The first two-month extension was a sign that the feds thought he could help them out somewhat. The fact that both the defense AND prosecution asked for a second, five-month extension means that they believe they can get more out of him than they had anticipated, and the prosecution said so, calling him a "career criminal" who made allegations that "take us to some places we did not anticipate." In his plea, Greenberg admitted to introducing minors to other men for sex, and, as a public official, he must have had a support network to help him commit his millions of dollars in fraud. To anyone viewing this case from the outside, the reasonable expectation is that Greenberg's cooperation may be resulting in the investigation of dozens of people for sex crimes and financial crimes.

     Today, this cooperation is bearing fruit. Keith Ingersoll and James Adamczyk are two Greenberg associates involved in an international real estate fraud scheme that misled investors out of no less than $12 million. They told said investors that the money was a loan that would be used to flip properties in Florida and the Bahamas for profit. Ingersoll and Adamczyk allegedly pocketed the money and spent it on, among other things, luxury cars. While some properties did exist and simply never saw any of the money the unnamed investors gave, some were fabricated entirely. According to the indictment in the Middle District of Florida, there are other co-conspirators who have yet to be indicted. Both Ingersoll and Adamczyk were let out on bond after being charged with 40 federal felonies each. Ingersoll was also charged with a 41st crime: aggravated identity theft. This big break was related to just one of the 27 charges Greenberg had dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea. If convicted, Keith Ingersoll and James Adamczyk each face up to life in prison.

     This is also big news for another reason. The Bahamas is a nation associated with high levels of sex trafficking. In numerous major cases across North America, the Bahamas has been the site of the trade due to its scenic location drawing in men and women with money combined with corruption and a lack of law enforcement capacity on the islands. Matt Gaetz allegedly accompanied Greenberg to the Bahamas in 2018, and this confirms that this investigation is international, will likely be ongoing, will, without question, result in more indictments, and may be more shocking than we had thought.

     It doesn't look good for Ingersoll or Adamczyk, either. One interesting take on this case from a career prosecutor was that federal prosecutors would not file charges based on Joel Greenberg's word alone. Sex traffickers like Greenberg are subhuman, and his accusations only lead to investigations. The prosecutors have to have other evidence on these people before charging them with such serious crimes, and today's indictment means they do. A word of advice to these two men, likely the first of many to be caught up in this web of greed and destruction: cooperate. America deserves the truth.