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Embattled former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg had a troubled tenure in office, the NYT reports. Before being charged with federal crimes, Greenberg was accused of abusing his office and wasting taxpayer funds. Greenberg, an associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz, is now a key player in the investigation against Gaetz. Embattled former Seminole County, Florida, tax collector Joel Greenberg, now a major player in the federal probe against Rep. Matt Gaetz, had a long history of being accused of official misconduct, including having complaints filed accusing him of acting as a vigilante police offi...

By BARBARA LISTON, MATT ZAPOTOSKY AND MICHAEL SCHERER | The Washington Post | Published: April 8, 2021 ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida politician at the center of an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz is negotiating with federal prosecutors to resolve his own sex-trafficking and other charges, a potentially ominous sign for the congressman if his associate decides to cooperate in a bid for leniency. Joel Greenberg, a former tax collector for Seminole County, Fla., initially was charged last summer in an indictment that prosecutors have since superseded, adding charges of sex trafficking of a mi...

POLITICO How Matt Gaetz’s relationship with a scandal-prone local tax collector got him into big trouble. Joel Greenberg talks to the press during an interview at his office in Lake Mary, Fla., on Sept. 30, 2019. | Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP Link Copied Florida has never seen a tax collector like Joel Greenberg. His Seminole County tax office was the only one in the state where employees were armed with pistols and body armor. He wore his own law enforcement badge and carried a sidearm at tax collector conferences. He let people pay property taxes with Bitcoin. He tweeted Islamopho...

REVEALED: Rep. Matt Gaetz 'paid women via Apple Pay for ecstasy-fueled sex at Florida hotels after being introduced to them by former tax collector Joel Greenberg who met them on a sugar daddy website' Multiple women reportedly told investigators Gaetz would tell them a place to meet and how much he was willing to pay them They would then meet in hotels in Florida where the congressman would sometimes take ecstasy before they had sex, the women said Gaetz was reportedly first introduced to the women through Greenberg, who is in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and who met the w...

REVEALED: Matt Gaetz 'showed lawmakers naked photos on the House floor of women he said he'd slept with' as former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe says there must be a 'significant degree of information' for sex trafficking probe to be launched Multiple sources told CNN the congressman showed lawmakers photos and videos of the women while he was on the House floor  There is no known link between these alleged images and the sex trafficking probe into Gaetz Prominent Republicans have remained silent on the probe with sources saying the congressman is not well liked because of his avid self-...