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    Seminole County Florida Tax Collector Joel Greenberg has been a bad, bad boy!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...DaG?li=BBnbfcL

    Florida Tax Collector Joel Greenberg drops out of the election after he was accused of stalking and making false rape allegations on his opponent for the Tax Collector election.



    Joel Greenberg -- who resigned this week as Seminole County Tax Collector following a federal indictment on stalking and identity theft charges - has withdrawn as a Republican candidate for the seat and will not seek a second term.

    Greenberg’s business associate Daniel Day, who went by the name of Dani Mora Day in the race, also withdrew on Thursday as the “no party affiliate” candidate in the race.


    That leaves Republican candidates Brian Beute, a teacher at Trinity Preparatory School in south Seminole, and J.R. Kroll, a mortgage broker, as the two Republican candidates vying for the county’s Tax Collector seat in the party’s Aug. 18 primary.

    The winner will face Democrat Lynn Moira Dictor in the countywide Nov. 3 general election.

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to soon name an interim Seminole Tax Collector to finish Greenberg’s term that ends Jan. 4 when a new Tax Collector will be sworn in.

    Greenberg stepped down as Tax Collector on Wednesday, a day after federal prosecutors unsealed a grand jury indictment that charges him with stalking a political opponent by sending out fake letters claiming sexual harassment. The letters also claimed that his opponent was a “segregationist and in favor of white supremacy.”

    Greenberg also allegedly created fake Twitter and Facebook accounts to post the false information, according to federal prosecutors.

    Greenberg, 35, was first elected in November 2016 after beating a write-in candidate in the general election and longtime Tax Collector Ray Valdes in the August primary that year.

    Dictor accused Day of using a fake name similar to her name in an effort to confuse voters. County elections officials said Day claimed in his candidate qualifying documents that “Mora” is a nickname he often uses. And Dani is short for Daniel, his legal name.

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    https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/...-stalking-case

    Joel Greenberg enters a plea Not Guilty for political corruption, Stalking and making false rape allegations.

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- Former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday in a federal case alleging he stalked a political foe.

    Greenberg, 35, resigned from his elected post on June 24, a day after the U.S. Attorney?s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced two charges against the Lake Mary man.

    He is accused of stalking and unlawful use of a means of identification of another person.

    Greenberg?s attorney filed a document on his behalf waiving his right to appear in court and entering a plea of not guilty.

    U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell is scheduled to preside over a status conference for Greenberg?s case on July 14. A jury trial is set for August 3.

    According to an indictment, Greenberg is responsible for social media accounts that falsely alleged the political foe -- a school employee -- had sex with a student.

    Federal prosecutors also allege he was behind an ?imposter Twitter account? using the foe?s name and image without that person?s knowledge or approval.

    ?Greenberg caused postings to be made using that account that falsely represented that the school employee was a segregationist and in favor of white supremacy,? the U.S. Attorney?s Office said in a statement.

    Greenberg faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted of both charges.

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    https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opin...2qu-story.html

    If You think Kanye West and Donald Trump are batshit crazy. Check out this Joel Greenberg ex tax collector he had scandals crazier than even Trump.


    The Orlando Sentinel’s editorial board video-interviewed one of two Republican candidates for Seminole County tax collector this week, J.R. Kroll.

    The other candidate, Brian Beute, didn’t sit in. He’s collateral damage in Joel Greenberg’s scorched-earth re-election campaign.



    Greenberg, who until recently was the incumbent tax collector, is under federal indictment, accused of posing as a “very concerned student” in fake letters to the private school where Beute teaches, falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct.

    As if sexual assault on kids wasn’t enough, the feds say Greenberg falsely wrote that Beute was “a segregationist and in favor of white supremacy.”

    The indictment says Greenberg also posted the phony accusations on fake Twitter and Facebook accounts.

    None of it is true, according to the indictment. It’s all fabricated. But now Beute — the victim in this sordid episode — feels he can’t sit in on a routine editorial board interview “out of an abundance of caution,” he said in a written statement.



    Greenberg, who has pleaded not guilty, ended his campaign and resigned from office before Gov. Ron DeSantis could suspend him, assuming DeSantis had planned to do so.

    Good riddance. Greenberg was the worst elected official in recent Central Florida memory, and that’s saying something. His behavior was arrogant, reckless, untrustworthy and ridiculous. And he was a terrible steward of the public’s money.

    In this election season, Greenberg’s wrecking-ball tenure is a reminder of what’s at stake, even in races that might seem as innocuous and inconsequential as tax collector, essentially an administrative function.

    Greenberg was elected in 2016 — the year of the Trump — at the age of 31. He spent nearly $200,000 of his own money to defeat longtime incumbent Ray Valdes, who had served beyond his expiration date.

    It was a bad choice of candidates but Seminole County voters picked the greater of two evils — Greenberg, who wasted no time proving it:

    A few months after his election, Greenberg decides he doesn’t like his free office space and moved to new digs that cost $9,200 a month.
    A couple of months after that he lets the county know he’s hiring 19 new employees at a cost of about $500,000 annually.
    In June 2017 he decides employees should be able to openly carry firearms.
    Later that summer, armed and wearing a “tax collector” badge, he bans from his offices a county commissioner he was miffed at.
    Greenberg closes out 2017 by following and pulling over a woman he thought was speeding so he could scold her.
    The tables are turned at the start of 2018 when Greenberg is pulled over for speeding and tries to use his public position to get out of a ticket.
    About that same time the state puts an end to a scheme in which Greenberg wanted to sell off tax collector branch offices and invest in shopping centers.
    Later that year he takes to Facebook to insult Muslims.
    In late 2019, the Sentinel reveals that Greenberg has been handing out lucrative contracts and jobs to pals, business associates and buds who were in his wedding party.
    In the course of a few short years, Greenberg spends so much money that he’s returning nearly $5 million less each year in excess fees to the county, money that would otherwise be spent on roads, libraries and trails.

    That’s some kind of record in less than one full term.

    And yet, until he was indicted on charges of stalking and identity theft, Greenberg was going to run again.


    But who would support the re-election of a person who had proved so completely that he was unfit for office, including his betrayal of the bedrock conservative principle of fiscal responsibility?

    Chris Dorworth, for one. The Ballard Partners lobbyist, River Cross developer and former state lawmaker from Seminole gave Greenberg $1,000, according to a campaign finance report filed on June 10.

    So did Dorworth’s friend Matt Gaetz, the Panhandle Republican congressman whose $1,000 contribution shows up on the same report.

    Their contributions were made before Greenberg’s indictment, but his shortcomings as a public servant, his betrayal of the voters’ trust by acting in his own self-interest instead of the public’s, should have been an unforgivable sin.

    We’re glad Greenberg’s out of office, and we hope he stays gone. He embodies nearly everything that’s gone astray in politics.

    Electing the wrong person can damage the public trust, waste public money and harm people who have done nothing wrong.

    Just ask Brian Beute.

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    https://www.clickorlando.com/news/lo...ectors-office/

    Update on Florida Tax Collector Joel Greenberg now the FBI has him for Identity theft allegations . Originally Joel Greenberg was being investigated for making false rape allegations on a political opponent for Tax Collector now thats been changed to include this new allegation.

    SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – During his time as Seminole County tax collector, Joel Greenberg used information from surrendered driver’s licenses to make fake IDs with his picture on it, according to a federal indictment.

    The document filed Wednesday includes earlier allegations against Greenberg in which he’s accused of making fake social media accounts in order to start rumors about his political opponent and paint the victim as a white supremacist, as well as the new allegations.

    Greenberg resigned from his position as Seminole County tax collector in June, shortly after his arrest on federal stalking charges.

    The report claims that some customers came to Greenberg’s office to surrender their driver’s license -- for instance, when they were receiving a replacement or renewal -- with the understanding that their old ID would be shredded.

    Instead, federal prosecutors allege that Greenberg used the information from at least two IDs, one from Florida and one from Puerto Rico, to create a fake driver’s license that would have his picture on it along with the victims’ names, date of birth and other pertinent information.

    “Joel Micah Greenberg used the surrendered drivers licenses that he had taken to cause fake driver licenses to be produced that had his photograph but the personal information of the victims whose driver licenses he had taken,” prosecutors wrote.

    The first fake ID was made between Sept. 21, 2018 and June 23 while the second was made between Dec. 4, 2019 and June 23, according to the indictment.

    Greenberg is facing additional charges of production of identification and false identification documents and aggravated identity theft.

    In the federal stalking case, Greenberg has already entered a plea of not guilty. He was granted a conditional release last month.

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    https://fox40.com/news/your-local-el...-us-elections/

    Fifty-one separate elections — one in each state and one in Washington, DC. Each with different rules and regulations, and no national elections commission to tell the world who wins. How, then, to quickly and accurately determine who won the highest office in the land?

    That’s where the news media come in — and have done so since 1848, when The Associated Press declared the election of Zachary Taylor as president.

    The Electoral College actually chooses the president under the U.S. Constitution, acting in a process that starts with the popular vote across the republic. But its work takes weeks. In that strange vacuum created by a federalist system and worsened — in the 1800s — by the slow counting and communicating of returns, news organizations emerged as major players in first, collecting and adding together the vote from each state’s election officials around the country, then announcing the victor based on that vote count.

    Lots of people seem surprised by that these days, including President Donald Trump. After The Associated Press and the major U.S. television networks called the presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden, Trump tweeted: Since when does the media “call who the next president will be”?

    Here’s a look at how that system came to be.

    A FRAGMENTED PROCESS

    The expectation of same-day election results is a modern one, as is the notion of one single Election Day.

    The founding fathers designed the Electoral College — a series of state elections to pick the president — partly because keeping power in the states was the only way to guarantee some states would ratify the Constitution, says Alex Keyssar, a voting-rights expert at Harvard University. Since the Civil War, he says, rural and especially Southern politicians have objected to giving any power over elections to the federal government.

    Early in U.S. history, elections took place over many days, and not all states voted on the same day. It was the advent of the telegraph – and worries that results in one state might influence another – that led to a single presidential election day, according to David Greenberg, a Rutgers University history and journalism professor.

    USPS employee who claimed mail-in ballot tampering recants allegations, officials say
    Once a presidential election ends, each state chooses its representatives to the Electoral College — a number based on the size of each state’s population and how many representatives and senators it has in Congress. Those representatives, who are sworn to vote for the candidate who got the most votes in that state, don’t vote until Dec. 14.

    The president of the senate and the archivist must receive certificates recording the electoral vote results no later than the fourth Wednesday in December — this year, Dec. 23. The results of each state’s electoral votes are then sent to the newly elected Congress, which is set to meet in a joint session on Jan. 6 and announce the results.

    THE MEDIA’S ROLE

    It evolved from an instinct to report the news, but mostly because Americans didn’t want to wait to find out the results until mid-December.

    Against the reality of the decentralized government structure, no one but the media has been willing to take on the cost of tabulating votes, says Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. The Federal Election Commission regulates some aspects of elections but doesn’t tabulate votes. So the vacuum remained between individual states’ results and the country’s collective decision.

    AP’s role collecting vote counts and analyzing the data predates the Civil War. U.S. television networks began doing their own analyses in the 1960 race between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, examining data and calling winners one state at a time.

    This year’s effort was complicated by the coronavirus pandemic. People chose to vote early or by mail, producing a slower vote count in some states. The race was also close in many states, which makes ascertaining a winner more slow. The major networks and the AP called the presidential race on Saturday, four days after Election Day.

    HOW RACES ARE CALLED

    AP uses a 50-state network of freelance “stringers” who collect votes from county clerks and other local officials. Other AP journalists gather results from state or county websites, as well as via electronic data feeds from states.

    News organizations around the world that take AP use this count to report on results. Meanwhile, state-based analysts and editors on AP’s Decision Desk look at that vote count — combined with research including demographic data, voting history and statistics about advance voting — to declare winners.

    On Saturday morning, the AP declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner after determining he had won the race in Pennsylvania, which pushed him over the 270 electoral votes needed. Major U.S. television networks follow roughly the same process, using either AP’s vote count or another vote count to call races.

    Dems clinch control of the House, but their majority is likely to shrink
    “The plus of having the free press do this is that the free press is free and independent, at least in theory,” Keyssar says. “But it has no official status, and thus its conclusions are not binding on anyone. That is creating confusion as we speak.”

    There are no major efforts afoot to have anyone else do it.

    WHAT IF IT’S WRONG?

    Mistakes and glitches have happened.

    In 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune famously plastered “Dewey Defeats Truman” across the front page of its first edition when early numbers made it look like Thomas Dewey was ahead. But the tide turned, and President Harry S. Truman defied pollsters by scoring an upset victory.

    In 2000, the major TV networks and the AP called Florida for Democrat Al Gore, relying largely on Election Day polling. As the votes were counted everyone reversed course. The networks declared that Republican George W. Bush had carried the state, only to later retract that decision, too. The AP held off on making the second call, deeming the race too close. More than a month later, a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount and locked in Bush’s narrow victory

    LEGAL CHALLENGES

    The Trump campaign has vowed to challenge Biden’s victory in the courts. On Monday, Attorney General William Barr authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations,” if they exist, of voting irregularities before the Electoral College certifies the election. His memo identified no specific instances of alleged fraud.

    AP’s Decision Desk takes legal challenges and disputes into consideration when determining if a race is safe to call, says Sally Buzbee, executive editor of the AP.

    Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was holding a news conference in Philadelphia on Saturday to discuss the fraud claims when he learned the AP and other networks had called the race for Biden. He pointed out that media has no official role in deciding who becomes the U.S. president.

    That’s true. But Edmonds said he expects the practice of race-calling to continue. It’s entrenched, he says, and while he believes that news organizations can improve methods, “I don’t see a case that the system didn’t work.”

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    Gaetz couldn't even get his own pardon, lol

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...out&li=BBnb7Kz

    Scandal-plagued Florida politician Joel Greenberg reportedly tried to leverage his relationship with Rep. Matt Gaetz to get a pardon from Trump
    The mirror has become a microscope for Joel Greenberg. Initially he was being charged for stalking, ID theft and making false rape allegations for political gain has been accused of being more corrupt than the people he was accusing.

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