You’re looking at the case purely from the perspective of the sex-crimes angle which is understandable because it’s the most salacious and easiest to prove; the girl (or girls) is either of legal age or isn’t. That’s a slam-dunk particularly if they have a cooperating ‘victim.’
But, Greenberg was up to his eyeballs in public corruption charges. The sex-trafficking really only represented a fraction of his criminal exposure.
It’s interesting that the DoJ division that’s doing this investigation isn’t the trafficking division, but rather, the public corruption people. They’re not trying to tie up the loose ends of the Mann Act violations. They’re trying to see if Gaetz - or anyone else for that matter - played any part in or received any benefit from Greenberg’s abuse of office. That’s what’s taking so long. Public corruption cases take forever.
But wouldn’t the same apply to PC charges? They’ve already been through all Greenberg’s financials and electronic communications. They should have a shit ton of evidence.
This plea agreement stinks and combined with that bizarro attempt to blackmail Gaetz Sr. strikes me as an all hat and no cattle play.
So they will milk it for everything in the court of public opinion, because they don’t have squat to use in actual court where there are rules (not that judges enforce them these days).