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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Greenberg spent suspicious $300,000 in taxpayer funds on gov't issued credit card
Daily Beast reporting:
[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-accused-sex-trafficker-who-then-venmod-teen|
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Greenberg and Gaetz are also connected on Venmo to at least one other woman that Greenberg paid with taxpayer funds using a government-issued credit card. Seminole County auditors flagged hundreds of those payments as questioned or unaccounted for, and in total found more than $300,000 in suspicious or unjustified expenses. The Daily Beast was able to obtain that credit card data through a public records request.
No one has any idea what he was doing. Zero, said Daniel J. O'Keefe, an accountant who conducted a forensic audit for the county. The arrogance of these guys. They just felt they were above the law. I've never seen it this bad.
OKeefe was particularly puzzled by weekend expenses, hotels, unspecified high-dollar consulting fees, and cash advances that Greenberg made to himself and others. The Daily Beast has compared Greenbergs credit card statements and Venmo transactions to Gaetzs expenses and travel recordscompiled through campaign finance reports, Instagram posts, and Venmoand found that, in some key places, the two timelines and circles of contact overlap.
Gaetz and Greenberg share Venmo connections with at least two women who received payments from Greenberg, and both have professional relationships with each other.
In 2018, Greenberg also paid another woman, a mutual friend of Gaetz's, several thousand dollars using his taxpayer-backed Seminole County-issued Wells Fargo Visa card, according to county financial records obtained by The Daily Beast. Auditors flagged the transactions, saying that, despite having a contract and invoice from the company, they do not know what it was for.
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)I just wonder if Matty will also cop a plea and turn on someone.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... Gaetz will do it in a heartbeat. People like Matt don't fare well in prison.
dclarston13
(411 posts)They will squeeze him, once he gets remanded to federal custody. It's hard to imagine that other highly placed Florida politicians were not connected to this. I wonder of there has been any tracking of planes coming and going to the bahamas to see who else was there when MG was there.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Does the county have unlimited funds? Is there no budget?
More people are in that loop with knowledge of is actions.
Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)When they find out about each other's overreaches, it just warrants a chuckle. No one in this county will go out of their way to delve too deeply in the other's schemes.
brush
(53,776 posts)You can't spend 300k of the public's money and no one notices. There geniuses must've been begging to be caught.
Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)egregious could take place."
Yeah. That.
yardwork
(61,604 posts)Gaetz is going down. This is an old story,