Texts From Corrupt Florida GOP Pol Led Feds To Gaetz

The Daily Beast reports:

That tip to the feds came in a text message conversation that Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg had with an employee explaining why they were both in the office one weekend two years earlier, according to this person. According to three people with direct knowledge of the incident: Greenberg visited the Lake Mary, Florida branch of his tax collection agency that weekend. Grainy surveillance footage captured Greenberg standing near a manager’s desk with another man.

Greenberg forgot to set the alarm on the way out, which concerned the assistant branch manager when she walked into the office Monday morning. “Did you happen to visit the Lake Mary Office on the weekend?” the text message read. The image obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Greenberg allegedly responded: “Yes I was showing congressman Gaetz what our operation looked like. Did I leave something on?”

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