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).
Look at the Kwame Kilpatrick investigation. It started no later than 2007 yet Kilpatrick wasn’t indicted until 2010. In the intervening years, the feds had rolled up a number of people in Kilpatrick’s orbit several of whom turned state’s evidence but it still took the feds more than 3-years to put a case together against Kilpatrick. As I said, public corruption cases take forever.