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“If I brought you $250, 000 in bitcoins, would you?You would have asked Joel Greenberg.
Former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg attempted to use Bitcoin to pay for a presidential pardon, the Daily Beast reported Thursday.
Greenberg showed up to send $250,000 in cryptocurrencies to Roger Stone, a political representative related to former U. S. President Donald Trump, as a way for Stone to get a pardon for Greenberg, The Daily Beast said, showing screenshots of Signal’s messages allegedly sent by former Florida official. .
“If I get you $250,000 in bitcoins, will you or not be a monetary issue?” Greenberg would have written.
The revelation is a larger story about U. S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who would be investigated through federal officials for an alleged sexual date with a minor.
Federal prosecutors have accused Greenberg of a series of violations of the law, adding a child’s sex trafficking. Gaetz, a member of the Blockchain Caucus Congress, is investigating the Greenberg case, and Greenberg is cooperating with the investigation, according to the New York Times.
The Daily Beast reported Thursday that he had also downloaded a letter of confession written through Greenberg as part of his efforts to unload a pardon, which implicates Gaetz in accusations of having sex with a minor, according to the news site.
“On more than one occasion, this user has been involved in sexual activity with several of the other girls, the congressman of the 1st Congress of the District of Florida and I,” Greenberg wrote in 2020.
Money for gasoline, gifts, rent or partial tuition payments are among the strategies Greenberg alleges he and Gaetz used, adding for the individual under the age of 18, according to the article. women in the “name of the congressman,” according to the report.
A spokesman for Gaetz responded to a request for comment on Thursday night.
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