Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says

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Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says
Joel Greenberg and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on at least one occasion several years ago were recorded together entering the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office when it was closed on a weekend night,...
orlandosentinel.com
7:18 PM · Apr 1, 2021

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-joel-greenberg-matt-gaetz-closed-office-weekend-20210402-y5xcsaecibaa3eysrljvwjp3cm-story.html

Joel Greenberg and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on at least one occasion several years ago were recorded together entering the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office when it was closed on a weekend night, according to a person familiar with office operations who saw the videotape.

The person said the footage showed Greenberg and Gaetz walking into the Tax Collector’s Lake Mary office on Primera Drive. Greenberg was seen going through baskets where driver’s licenses, turned in by residents for disposal, were stored and later went into a back room, the person said.

CNN reported Thursday night the visit was revealed to federal authorities investigating Greenberg in January 2020. Gaetz has since become a target of investigators, who are probing whether an alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl violated sex trafficking laws, according to reports.

Information about the weekend office visit was shared with the Orlando Sentinel before news broke this week about the Gaetz investigation.

A spokesman for the Tax Collector’s Office, Alan Byrd, told the Sentinel on Thursday that an employee also recalls seeing Greenberg and another man on security camera footage in the office after hours at least once several years ago. But he said the employee did not know who the second man was.

Byrd said the employee did not want to be directly interviewed.

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[Drum]

1. Woomp there it is...

[Captain Zero]

2. Picking up weapons & badges to impress girls?

I'm going with that.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

3. Gaetz is toast. nt

[madaboutharry]

4. Were they making fake IDs?

Where the getting driver’s licenses for underage girls? That is what the implication seems to be?

[SoonerPride]

6. Using the licenses to make cocaine lines to snort

And that way no coke residue is on his credit cards or drivers license.

[multigraincracker]

7. When I was in high school

I had a dark room and made IDs for college football players. They all had the same info but their photo on it. All they would have to do is find an ID from someone with the same hair color and height and they’d be in the door at the bar.

[greenjar_01]

5. Honestly, what the fuck were these two derelicts up to?

Good God.

Matt Gaetz, let's remember, is rich as fuck and could get through his entire life without working a single day, and he's up to this nonsense.

[Blue_true]

9. I wonder whether his marriage proposal was a hamfisted attempt

at cover once he found that he was being investigated.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Ok course it was. He has to get married asap to look respectable.

[JI7]

15. I thought it was fake even before all of this

But thought it was mostly attention seeking bullshitting on his part.

But now I think it was about what is coming out now.

[NotASurfer]

8. So...provide fake ID a minor so they can travel under somebody else's name

And pass through TSA as somebody over the age of 18. I don't suppose the fake IDs met the Real ID standard needed for air travel, what with that being a Florida standard for licenses and Greenberg being in charge of the place in Seminole County that just happens to issue those licenses, giving Gaetz the "her license said she was 21" card to play, and that's the no good he was up to after hours?

[blogslug]

10. This needs kicking

I'm no legal expert but I'm guessing that being the accomplice to someone who snatched discarded IDs and licenses and then used them for illegal purposes, is all kinds of prosecutable.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Yes sounds like they were stealing ID's.

So what were they doing with the stolen driver's licenses?

[SunSeeker]

11. I don't think Gaetz's daddy will be able to get him out of trouble this time. nt

[chowder66]

12. Orlando Sentinel Story on Greenberg, stolen ID's

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The day he was indicted for stalking a political rival, Joel Greenberg had several stolen IDs in his work vehicle, a pair of fakes in his wallet and materials for making more in his office — evidence he was regularly abusing his position to steal unwitting constituents’ identities, according to federal authorities.

Inside the former elected Seminole tax collector’s work vehicle, agents found Greenberg’s backpack, which held three licenses from Canada, Virginia and Florida, belonging to Seminole County residents who’d recently obtained new Florida licenses.

Meanwhile, employees of the Tax Collector’s office told agents they’d seen Greenberg taking surrendered licenses from the agency’s “shred basket” prior to their destruction. When asked what he was doing, Greenberg gave fishy explanations — which federal authorities now say were lies.

Greenberg, who resigned from office and dropped his bid for a second term after he was arrested last month, also is suspected of using Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database “to conduct inappropriate and unauthorized searches of various individuals using his account and another employee’s account.”

Lots more at link....

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-joel-greenberg-identity-theft-new-details-20200721-dfsbvmtygvce7nfi2nnacajrpy-story.html

[orleans]

13. makes me wonder what was on joel's computers that his office bought for his business

and kept in his office. (i thought i read he installed them or a server himself and it started a fire)