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Joey Roulette/Reuters This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Fritz Scheller is representing the ex-tax collector whose cooperation with DOJ could spell trouble for Rep. Matt Gaetz. Scheller also defended the wife of the man who killed 49 people in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Well known in Florida legal circles, Scheller has been deemed the lawyer to call when someone's in a bind. Tyrone Smith was already facing up to 15 years in a federal penitentiary for dist...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It all started with a hunch by a central Florida prep school teacher about who had launched a politically motivated smear campaign against him, falsely alleging he was racist and in a sexual relationship with a high school student. Investigators say fingerprints on an envelope used in the smear campaign against Brian Beute led them to a local tax collector, Joel Greenberg. That investigation subsequently led to Greenberg's friend, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is now the subject of a probe into whether the congressman and tax collector paid women or offered them gifts in...

As federal agents investigate Rep. Matt Gaetz in a sex-trafficking inquiry, the scandal is fast becoming an inflection moment for the post-Trump Republican Party. With no previous political experience, Greenberg was elected Seminole County’s tax collector in 2016, promising to be a breath of fresh air while running against an incumbent who had been in office for almost three decades. Months after taking office in 2017, Greenberg started allowing employees to carry guns openly, even though then-state Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi’s office would say later in an informal, nonbinding opinion that they...

Greenberg has only one way to escape the full weight of the 33 charges against him: providing information to federal prosecutors. It all started with a hunch by a central Florida prep school teacher about who had launched a politically motivated smear campaign against him, falsely alleging he was racist and in a sexual relationship with a high school student. Investigators say fingerprints on an envelope used in the smear campaign against Brian Beute led them to a local tax collector, Joel Greenberg. That investigation subsequently led to Greenberg’s friend, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who ...

Gaetz friend was lightning rod for controversy in Florida Follow Us Question of the Day By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press - Saturday, April 17, 2021 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - It all started with a hunch by a central Florida prep school teacher about who had launched a politically motivated smear campaign against him, falsely alleging he was racist and in a sexual relationship with a high school student. Investigators say fingerprints on an envelope used in the smear campaign against Brian Beute led them to a loc...