NEW YORK CITY CANDIDATE MAYA
WILEY IS HERE TONIGHT ON THE EVE
OF THIS RACE.
EARLY VOTING ALREADY UNDERWAY.
WE BEGIN WITH ESCALATION IN
ANOTHER STORY, THE FEDERAL SEX
CRIMES INVESTIGATION OF
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MATT
GAETZ OF FLORIDA.
WE HAVE KNOWN HES UNDER
INVESTIGATION FOR SEX
TRAFFICKING AND POSSIBLY SEX
WITH A MINOR.
THESE ARE ISSUES HE DENIES.
BUT TODAY, THE NEW UPDATE IS
THERE ARE SIGNS THE CASE
CONTINUES TO MOVE.
PROSECUTORS BELIEVE A DECISION
ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO BRING
CHARGES TO GAETZ COULD COME AS
EARLY AS JULY.
NOW, THAT IS REPORTING FROM
MULTIPLE SOURCES TO ABC NEWS.
OTHER WITNESSES ALSO SPEAKING
OUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
MEANING, THEYRE SPEAKING
DIRECTLY TO THE FEDS.
COULD BE BAD NEWS FOR ANYONE
THEY HAVE EVIDENCE ON.
THE INTERVIEWS INVOLVE MORE
WOMEN WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY
INTRODUCED TO GAETZ THROUGH
GREENBERG
GREENBERG, WHO IS NOW CONVICTED.
AND, QUOTE, SINCE MAY, A NEW
ROUND OF TARGET LETTERS AND
SUBPOENAS IN THE WIDE RANGING
INVESTIGATION HAVE BEEN SENT
OUT.
THIS COMES AFTER THAT GUILTY
GAETZ ASSOCIATE WE JUST
MENTIONED, GREENBERG, PLEADED
GUILTY TO SIX FEDERAL CRIMES,
INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING AND
HAS BEEN COOPERATING.
HES PREPARED TO HAND OVER
EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY THAT
COULD IMPLICATE GAETZ AND
OTHERS.
SOURCES TELL THAT SAME ABC NEWS
TEAM.
NOW, A GAETZ SPOKESPERSON IS
RESPONDING DIRECTLY TO THIS NEW
REPORT SAYING ITS ALL ABOUT,
QUOTE, PARTISAN SMEAR JOB.
YOU MAY NOTICE IN OUR REPORTING,
AND I ALWAYS TRY TO BE
TRANSPARENT WITH YOU, I KEEP
SAYING ABC A LOT.
THIS IS AN ABC NEWS STORY, TO
CREDIT TO THEM AND IT IS ALSO
ONE THAT ABC NEWS HAS BEEN ABLE
TO MATCH OR FOLLOW UP ON.
AND GAETZ NOT YET CHARGED WITH
ANY WRONGDOING.
>> IT IS A HORRIBLE ALLEGATION,
AND IT IS A LIE.
I SPENT MY ENTIRE CAREER
PURSUING JUSTICE.
I DONT OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.
THE ONLY THING I HAVE OBSTRUCTED
IS THE INJUSTICE OFTENTIMES AT
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
THE THINGS THE MEDIA HAVE SAID
ABOUT ME ARE LIES, AND THE TRUTH
WILL PREVAIL.
>> DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BE
INDICTED?
>> NO.
>> WERE JOINED BY THE FLORIDA
STATE ATTORNEY FOR PALM BEACH
COUNTY AND MSNBC COLUMNIST LAURA
BASSITT
BASSITT.
I CREDIT ABC.
THEY HAVE THE REPORTING
SUGGESTING PROBLEMS FOR GAETZ
AND OTHERS AS I READ THEIR
SOURCING AND IT SUGGESTS SOME
SORT OF RESOLUTION, SOON.
YOU ARE DOWN THERE.
YOU HAVE BEEN AN ANALYST ON
THESE STORIES BEFORE.
DOES THAT RING TRUE TO YOU?
>> IT DOES.
IT IS WHAT I EXPECTED BECAUSE
THIS INVESTIGATION SEEMS TO BE
WRAPPING UP.
THEY HAVE THE COOPERATION OF THE
MAN AT THE CENTER OF THIS WHOLE
THING, JOEL GREENBERG, ACCORDING
TO, ALONG WITH REPORTS,
COOPERATION WITH MATT GAETZS
EX-GIRLFRIEND AND THE
17-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO ALLEGEDLY
IS THE VICTIM OF CHILD SEX
TRAFFICKING.
IT IS IRONIC THAT IT IS THE
PERSON WHO IS THE MOST CULPABLE
WHO WILL GET THE BEST DEAL
BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE MOST.
THIS EXPLAINS WHY THINGS HAVE
BEEN SO DELAYED, BECAUSE THIS IS
NOT JUST ABOUT WHETHER MATT
GAETZ HAD SEX WITH AN UNDERAGED
GIRL.
THIS IS A LOT BROADER THAN THAT.
IT COULD INVOLVE THE MAN HACK,
VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE
LAWS, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE,
WITNESS TAMPERING, IDENTITY
THEFT.
JOEL GREENBERG HAS ALREADY PLED
GUILTY TO THAT.
THATS WHY THIS HAS TAKEN SO
LONG.
NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IF
YOU INDICT A SITTING MEMBER OF
CONGRESS, YOU NEED TO GET LOTS