A federal judge in Florida unsealed the civil case documents in October following a request from the McClatchy newspaper chain,
according to The New York Times.
“Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for ‘companionship’ with young women looking to make money.”
According to the report by the House Ethics Committee, the girl signed up with a “sugar dating”website that arranged “mutually beneficial relationships,” usually with younger women and older men. That’s when she met Gaetz associate
Joel Greenberg who allegedly paid her $400 for sexual encounters.
The documents continued that the girl met Gaetz at a party where she took cocaine and ecstasy and allegedly had sex with Gaetz twice for $400. She later told congressional investigators that she saw Gaetz use cocaine that night.
Greenberg, who cooperated in the case against Gaetz, pleaded guilty to underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US government. He was handed an 11-year sentence.