Who Is Joel Greenberg? A Guide to the Man Who Could Bring Down Matt Gaetz

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A guide to Joel Greenberg, the former Florida official who could bring down Matt Gaetz.

Greenberg’s time as tax collector was also marred by accusations of cronyism. Auditors who reviewed records of Greenberg’s tenure found that he doled out unnecessary consulting contracts to friends and associates, and tallied more than $1.65 million in “unnecessary personnel costs.

Greenberg was initially arrested in June 2020 for alleged attempts to “cause substantial emotional distress” to a music teacher who had filed to run against Greenberg. This led to charges of. Prosecutors accused Greenberg of mailing anonymous letters to the prep school where the teacher worked, suggesting the male teacher had an improper sexual relationship with an underage student, and spreading the same false accusations on Twitter and Facebook.

Later that summer, Greenberg was charged with numerous violations of Driver’s Privacy Protection Act Violations, multiple counts of production of an identification document and false identification documents, and aggravated identity theft. According to prosecutors, Greenberg abused his elected office, using “his access to the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office to take surrendered driver licenses before they were shredded.

He was also charged with sex trafficking a minor, which ultimately led authorities to launch a separate investigation into whether Gaetz may have engaged in sex trafficking of the same person. Greenberg was allegedly using fake IDs to “facilitate his efforts to engage in commercial sex acts” with individuals with whom he engaged in “sugar daddy” relationships.

 

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for what? Parking fees? A bahamas vacation? His voicemails? Replacing his ID card illegally? because there is ZERO sex trafficked minors on literal ApplePay reciepts

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