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(NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 Once again, the Department of Justice has been accused of putting politics above equal justice under the law. But this time, the accusation stemmed from the DOJ not prosecuting a prominent Republican. <\/p>\n

Despite two years of headlines suggesting otherwise, it now seems Congressman Matt Gaetz will not be charged after an investigation into whether the congressman paid for sex with a then-17-year-old girl. <\/p>\n

Now, a Florida lawyer who provided the DOJ mountains of evidence as part of a plea deal for his client, Gaetz’s former pal Joel Greenberg, is fuming in a court filing Monday night. The attorney wrote a scathing rebuke to the DOJ comparing their alleged inaction, to “Nero fiddling away as Rome burns.”<\/p>\n

The dramatic filing from Fritz Scheller, the lawyer representing Greenberg, suggests the DOJ is giving Gaetz a pass because of who he is: “Why hasn’t the Department of Justice prosecuted the other individuals including public figures who were also involved in Greenberg’s offenses?” <\/p>\n

Indeed, Greenberg’s plea agreement refers to the involvement of multiple co-conspirators, including individuals involved in his sex offense. Greenberg, a former tax collector for Seminole County, Florida and one-time friend of Gaetz, pleaded guilty last year to sex trafficking of a minor and a host of other crimes as part of a cooperation deal with authorities. <\/p>\n

After agreeing to testify for the government, Scheller was confident in April of last year that Gaetz would be sitting at a defense table.<\/p>\n