Reckoning looms for Florida G.O.P.

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Robert J. DeNault
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Sources: Greenberg has info that could implicate many in Florida GOP. New info on odd gov't contracts with a "MAGA Advisory Group, LLC" and issues with a 3rd-party candidate who filed (then withdrew) a run for tax collector are threads to watch. My latest.

Reckoning looms for Florida G.O.P.
A tangled web of Republican officials, lobbyists, and private LLC's connect to embattled former tax collector Joel Greenberg. It spells trouble for some in the state's G.O.P.
robertjdenault.substack.com
2:16 PM · Apr 13, 2021

https://robertjdenault.substack.com/p/reckoning-looms-for-florida-gop

When Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg was indicted by federal prosecutors in the middle of his primary campaign last June, Republicans across the state of Florida did not take to the presses to register their shock, nor lock arms in his public defense. Instead, they said, well, pretty much nothing.

That near-universal silence was notable, since at the time the only public victim of Greenberg’s crimes was his Republican primary opponent for tax collector, a local teacher named Brian Beute. According to that June indictment, Greenberg tried to destroy Beute’s campaign by assuming false identities of students and teachers in the school where Beute taught and sending letters to school administrators alleging Beute sexually assaulted a male student. Beute was placed on administrative leave—even though the allegations were completely baseless. Ultimately, Greenberg was arrested and charged for the sabotage. But Beute, a lifelong Republican, received no vigorous defense (or any defense at all) from his colleagues in the Florida G.O.P. And now that silence is becoming circumstantial evidence of its own.

Sources close to Greenberg’s case have indicated for several months that there are broader financial and political crimes which may implicate many of Greenberg’s political associates and other Republicans down in Florida. As federal authorities inch closer to a wide range of financial corruption that appears to have taken place during Greenberg’s tenure and Greenberg himself considers cooperating, these sources say he has knowledge of evidence which could implicate no less than half a dozen—and perhaps more—G.O.P. power brokers and operatives across the state.

Specifically, this writer can confirm previously unreported information about a government contract between the Seminole County Tax Collector’s office while Greenberg ran it and limited liability company called “MAGA Advisory Group Associates, LLC” for inexplicable monthly payments. Sources also tell this writer that questions about the 2020 candidacy of a curious third party candidate for Seminole County Tax Collector, who ran using a name similar to the Democratic nominee that year without raising or spending any campaign money, are under scrutiny by local authorities. The candidate withdrew from the race on the same day Greenberg did—just days after it was revealed federal prosecutors had indicted the former tax collector. This writer can reveal that a local elections officer has filed a complaint about the candidate with Florida elections officials, and that sources close to the investigation believe the candidate may have been illegally funded by Greenberg or his associates.

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[tanyev]

1. I'm gonna let Corey Lewandowski say it.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. RICO the entire republican party, they are all in it to rip off money, etc., and work as one to do

so.

[lindysalsagal]

3. +1000. n/t