Copyright 2021 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved. The woman, according to two people familiar with their relationship, had previously had sex with Mr. Greenberg and received money from him on mobile payment apps; she had been leaving his house, the people said. Joel Greenberg is a former Florida tax collector and political ally of Rep. Matt Gaetz whose federal indictment has led to reports of an investigation into Gaetz for alleged sex trafficking. political dirty tricks that has been Stones specialty since the Nixon presidency. No former president has ever confronted the barrage of legal threats that Donald J. Trump now faces, all of which appear to be heading toward key decision pointsby the authorities in coming months. He called him a disrupter who had taken the tax collectors office by storm.. He pulled over a woman in 2017 while wearing shorts, a backward baseball cap and his tax collectors badge around his neck. The stalking charge against Greenberg alleges that he used a pseudonym to send letters to the middle school where Beute is a teacher, falsely claiming that Beute had a sexual relationship with a student. Joel Greenberg is the son of Andrew Greenberg, a dentist and founder of Greenberg Dental, a chain of over 90 dental clinics throughout Florida. Please email us at [emailprotected], subject line republish, with any questions or to let us know what stories youre picking up. It was a belligerent, defiant, rebellion-type of thing at home.. Friday the 13th with Milo Yiannopoulos, he wrote. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Gaetz gave $1,000 to Greenbergs reelection campaign last year. So Greenberg has made plenty of headlines considering his sole public role has been tax collector for Seminole County from 2017 until last year, when he resigned because of the indictments. By the end of his tenure, his office in top-shelf space he leased was strewn with electronics, one person who saw it said. Burning down the house in order to save it is not working and total bullshit. Greenbergs actions are an embarrassment to the office he holds, and his attitude reflects poorly on the people who elected him and pay his $150,000 per year salary, the Jewish leader said. According to Orlando Weekly, he was accused of having a legacy of anti-Muslim bigotry and corruption.. He is not involved with the Jewish community in any way, making his association with us even more embarrassing.. Greenberg, a former Seminole County tax collector, previously pleaded guilty to underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud. Joel Greenberg's family owns a successful dental practice, , with over 75+ locations placed across Florida. Joel Greenberg. A county audit concluded that Mr. Greenberg had wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer money and used his tax collector credit card to purchase body armor, weapons and a drone. Greenberg got support in both his campaigns from a Facebook page, Central Florida Post, founded by Jacob Engels, who has been named as an associate of Roger Stone. The stalking charge against Greenberg alleges that he used a pseudonym to send letters to the middle school where Beute is a teacher, falsely claiming that Beute had a sexual relationship with a student. Defending himself in 2018 against the Islamophobia charge, Greenberg said that one of his brothers is Black. He engaged in sex acts with a minor at least seven times while she was underage. Gaetz contributed the maximum amount to Greenbergs campaign, and brought him along to a visit to the White House, according to the Times. Among an array of charges, Greenberg has been indicted for. Hard-liner Bezalel Smotrich was just put in charge of Israels settlements. The Gaetz investigation apparently grew out of an earlier investigation of Greenberg, according to the New York Times. A few months into office, Mr. Greenberg was, according to an employee and others in his orbit, already bored. [29], Greenberg's father is Jewish. Joel Greenberg is a former Seminole County, Florida, tax collector who was indicted in 2020 on stalking and sex trafficking allegations by federal authorities who accused him of having "sugar. Mr. Greenberg with his daughter and his wife, Abby, in 2019. Last year, the page posted an attack on Greenbergs primary opponent itled Creepy Brian Beute. (Facebook has taken down the page.). But Mr. Valdes had been accused of ethical misconduct, and Mr. Greenberg, a newcomer, saw an opening. Hush money. On Thursday, U.S. district court Judge Gregory A. Presnell wrote in a curt order that Greenberg's plea "is now accepted and the defendant is adjudged guilty of such offenses." A sentencing. One of the things I discovered when I had a public feud with Joel is that he is not actually Jewish although his father is, said one community activist, who spoke on condition their name not be used for fear of retaliation. Within days, one of the women crashed a vehicle into a tree near Mr. Greenbergs house, suffering minor injuries, according to a police report of the crash, which has not been previously reported. 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I am frequently called on to speak on behalf of the Jewish community, Friedman wrote in a Sentinel op-ed. [6] On July 6, Greenberg requested, and prosecutors agreed to, a three-month delay in his sentencing so he could further cooperate with the government; presiding federal judge Gregory Presnell agreed to reschedule the sentencing date to November 18. Ben Friedman, the director of community relations for Orlandos Jewish federation, said Greenbergs question was disgraceful and that Greenberg was, basically, a shanda. The accusations, which included defrauding the Small Business Administration out of more than $432,000 in Covid-19 relief loans, described wrongdoing that began days after Mr. Greenberg was first arrested and released on bond last summer, prosecutors said. : In 2016 he filed a report accusing Valdes of assault, but the prosecutor said Engels was only seeking a confrontation. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Gaetz. [30] Greenberg married his wife, Abby, in 2016 and has a son and a daughter. The U.S. Justice Department reportedly is investigating Gaetzs alleged sexual relationship with a girl who was 17 years old when the affair took place about two years ago. Then-Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg talks to the Orlando Sentinel in September 2019, during an interview at his office in Lake Mary, Fla. TNS/Zuma Press. Anti-Trump Republicans Face Major Challenge in Launching Third Party, Cheney Defiant After Censure: GOP Not the Party of 'QAnon or Antisemitism', Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Matt Gaetz says hes part of a $25M extortion plot. Gaetz represents the Panhandle in northwest Florida, while Greenbergs Seminole County is in the states center. [7] He also participated in a mentorship program run by then-Orlando Magic basketball player John Amaechi. Some of this money was funneled through a private company he created and ran from government buildings, called Government Blockchain Systems LLC. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. Greenbergs top priority is to serve Seminole County taxpayers and customers. It also alleges that he produced a fake drivers license. Im Jewish, which is probably one of the most hated groups. Three of the people on the payroll, On separate occasions, Greenberg used his tax collector badge to, Greenberg broke parole this month when he figured out his wife had decamped from their home to her mothers house 2 1/2 hours away. Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. Kitty Bennett contributed research. She reviewed surveillance video and saw Mr. Greenberg with another man by that desk. He now sits in jail, awaiting an expected plea deal and most likely a yearslong prison sentence. [11], Federal agents arrested Greenberg at his home on June 23, 2020; he resigned the following day after being released on bail. The government alleged that he used his access to Floridas database to recruit minors into a sugar daddy relationship, acquiring photos and driving license information. searched Mar-a-Lago, has been complicatedby the discovery that President Bidenand former Vice President Mike Pencealso had classified files in their possession. Greenberg drew fire in 2018 when he peddled Islamophobia on Facebook. Scott Maxwell, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, said on Twitter after The Times story broke that Greenberg has kept the paper busy, posting a long list of headlines related to his escapades alleged and otherwise. It also alleges that he produced a fake drivers license. [27] Subsequently, a December sentencing date was set. Greenberg has posted at least two selfies on Twitter with Gaetz. The other, from 2019, is at the White House with Chris Dorworth, a former Florida state representative. The second indictment against Greenberg alleges that he trafficked a minor female aged between 14 and 18, and used state databases to illegally obtain information about her and others. Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction of more Muslims, Greenberg said. [20][21] As part of the plea agreement, Greenberg must register as a sex offender. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press, No former president has ever confronted the barrage of legal threats that Donald J. Trump now faces, all of which appear to be, The Justice Department has been asking questions for more than a year about Mr. Trumps efforts to overturn the election and whether he committed any crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Lynn Moira Dictor is not. The Times said its not clear how Greenberg, 35, got to know Gaetz, 38. Dictor, a sharp-tongued former radio personality who lost the tax collectors race to a Republican, is now chair of the Seminole County Democratic Party. He has occasionally referenced his Jewish heritage as a defense when accused of various bigotries, which is despicable, said the activist, but he is or was a member of a local Christian church, and had been since his youth. Greenberg. Abby Greenberg also wants the judge to liquidate her estranged husbands cryptocurrency account and award her half the proceeds. Mr. Gaetz told Politico that he had briefly lost his wallet but found it before needing the I.D. Ron DeSantis, a Republican close to Mr. Gaetz, had overturned a ban on smokable medical marijuana. Greenberg got support in both his campaigns from a Facebook page, Central Florida Post, founded by Jacob Engels, who has been named as an associate of Roger Stone. Rep. Matt . His friendships gave him a taste of greater power. She said he had yelled at her for supposedly cutting him off and driving like a bat out of hell, according to a complaint she filed to the sheriffs office. @mattgaetz and @ChrisDorworth duckface and all. Time to disobey the orders and stand up for our civil liberties being shit on, the site quoted him as saying on social media of COVID-19 lockdowns. Im Jewish, which is probably one of the most hated groups. pic.twitter.com/aWwiZpFt5r, Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) March 30, 2021, Greenberg also wrote tweets like, Im sick of all these white supremacist and Russians interfering with our country and If any of the protesters come near my houseI will sneeze and cough on them. Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting from Washington. On separate occasions, Greenberg used his tax collector badge to stop a woman he said was speeding and to try and persuade a traffic cop not to ticket him for speeding. A special grand jury in Georgia recently concludedits investigation into whether Mr. Trump and his allies criminally interfered with the 2020 election. 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At the request of federal prosecutors, Greenbergs sentencing has been postponed until March so he can continue cooperating with the government on other, undisclosed investigations. If you need help with the Public File, call 407-291-6000. A poorly installed server to allow for cryptocurrency payments to the tax collectors office was blamed for a fire this year. Greenbergs crimes carried a sentence of up to 27 years, but prosecutors agreed in a pre-sentencing hearing on Wednesday to a reduced sentence since he aided them in other sex-trafficking investigations. Mr. Gaetz represents a district some 400 miles away. Friday the 13th with Milo Yiannopoulos, he wrote. 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Abby Greenberg filed for divorce last month in Seminole County Circuit Court, saying the couples nearly six-year marriage was irretrievably broken., [TRENDING: Parents sue after getting another couples embryo|Are you required to use your turn signal in Florida? He plays to the audience thats in front of him. Another selfie he posted in 2017 is with Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right activist infamous for a long article in Breitbart whitewashing white supremacists. In the end, Mr. Greenberg went from being an outsider elected on an anticorruption platform to, prosecutors say, becoming corrupted himself. He quickly built relationships with Mr. Gaetz, 38, whom he had met in political circles that also included Chris Dorworth, 44, a real estate developer and lobbyist for Ballard Partners, a powerful firm that had close ties to the Trump administration. I dont go out there to be a demagogue against anyone else. A former Florida tax collector and close associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is facing a 45-page federal indictment alleging wire fraud, sex trafficking, and a litany of other offenses connected to the alleged abuse of his office and other crimes. (Sample: Editorial: Good riddance to Joel Greenberg, Central Floridas worst politician.), Greenberg has posted at least three selfies on Twitter with Gaetz. Overturning the election. LAKE MARY, Fla. As former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg awaits sentencing on child sex trafficking and other federal charges, his estranged wife is asking a judge for permission to sell the couples home in Lake Marys Heathrow community. Their inquiry culminated in 33 federal charges against Mr. Greenberg, 36, including sex trafficking of a minor, bribery, fraud and stalking and led to a mushrooming political scandal that burst into national news in recent days and ensnared Mr. Gaetz, who is a close ally of President Donald J. Trump, and other influential Florida Republicans, with the investigation continuing. Hes exactly what we need in Florida to energize the MAGA movement. He retweeted another Gaetz tweet that read, The Iraq War was a tragic failure.. One is from 2017 with Roger Stone, the adviser to President Donald Trump who has his own history of legal imbroglios. What ultimately got Mr. Greenberg into trouble as so often happens in Florida began with a clash over real estate. Joel Greenberg, who had served as a locally elected tax collector in Central Florida's Seminole County, had to resign his post last year after he was hit with the first of three indictments that . Three of the people on the payroll were in his wedding party. [31] References [ edit] ^ Comas, Martin E. (July 24, 2020). See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs. Copyright 2023 The Forward Association, Inc. All rights reserved. [3], Greenberg was once described as a Republican star in Central Florida politics. He spent $90,000 of agency money to set up cryptocurrency mining devices, and $15,000 on a sprinkler system that was calibrated to drive away petitioners. Gaetz represents the Panhandle in northwest Florida, while Greenbergs Seminole County is in the states center. [19] On May 17, 2021, Greenberg pleaded guilty to six federal charges: sex trafficking of a child, production of a false identification document, aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, stalking, and conspiracy. Mr. Greenberg acted unlike any other tax collector in Florida. Greenberg's father is Jewish. Greenberg was later hit with new federal charges, including sex trafficking. Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Mike DeForest has been covering Central Florida news for more than two decades. Would love your thoughts, please comment. The decision about whether to charge Mr. Trump will ultimately be made by the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, who has been investigating the case for the last two years. This includes participating in marches or rallies in support of a movement or giving money to, or raising money for, any political candidate or election cause. In exchange for his cooperation, prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining charges from the original indictment. Greenberg was raised in a Christian family and attended a Christian church. Four complaints about his actions as tax collector were made to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement from August 2017 to August 2018, including accusations that he had asked a contractor to hack the countys computers, department records show. Joel Greenberg asks for delay in his sentencing. When a neighbor called 911, the woman was crying out incoherently in the background, according to a recording of the call. Two more superseding indictments followed. The Department of Justice press release on the indictment says that United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez had charged Joel Micah Greenberg (35, Lake Mary) with stalking and unlawful use of a means of identification of another person. Court papers do not indicate the value of Joel Greenbergs cryptocurrency account nor the anticipated sale price of their home. ORLANDO, Fla. Joel Greenberg and his estranged wife, Abby Greenberg, are now officially divorced after a circuit judge on Monday finalized the couple's break up, according to court documents . Interviews with people in Seminole County who dealt with Mr. Greenberg and a review of news articles and public records from his past suggest that he was a wealthy but troubled teenager who drifted through young adulthood before turning to local politics five years ago and embracing Trumpism. Greenberg, a former Seminole County, Florida, tax collector . [18] In April 2021, Greenberg's attorney announced that his client planned to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement with the government to avoid a possible life sentence. I dont go out there to be a demagogue against anyone else. And Greenberg plans to spend $109,000 on consulting. He spent at least $2.65 million on a security force and for consultants; staffers could not say what the consultants did. Another politically active member of the Jewish community who spoke on condition of anonymity scoffed at the idea. Mar 04, 2021 at 11:18 am. And in 2019, at the White House, it was with Chris Dorworth, a former Florida state representative. Dozens of others are under investigation as a result of the charges against Greenberg, who was initially indicted in 2021 for paying a woman under the age of 18 for sex at least seven times, and for embezzling public money he had access to during his approximately three years as Seminole County tax collector to buy cryptocurrency and sports memorabilia, among other activities. The investigation into the Trump-allied Florida congressman over alleged sexual relations with a 17-year-old stem from a federal probe of Joel Greenberg, criticized by his local Jewish community in the past. His friend Mr. Dorworth wanted to build a shopping and residential complex on rural lands in eastern Seminole County. ORLANDO, Fla. - A newly released rap video celebrating Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz features an unlikely cameo: the estranged wife of former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg . Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty to multiple crimes in a case that led to a sex trafficking investigation of Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz. Though the sex trafficking charge against Mr. Greenberg and the ensuing Justice Department examination into Mr. Gaetz including whether he had sex with the same 17-year-old girl have received the most attention, the array of schemes that Mr. Greenberg is suspected of are broader and altogether show an astonishing disregard for the law by an elected official. According to the television station, he was also accused of creating fake drivers licenses to to produce a false identification document to facilitate his efforts to engage in commercial sex acts. He was accused of soliciting a minor between the ages of 14 and 17 in 2017. Some critics of indicted former tax collector Joel Micah Greenberg and there are many are confused about whether or not he is Jewish. , a far-right group also associated with Stone. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search. [22][23] By early October, a lawyer for Greenberg had asked for another delay, this time to March 2022. As an adult, Greenberg has identified himself as being Jewish. Joel Greenberg pleads guilty to sex trafficking, will cooperate in other investigations. April 15, 2021. As one of the youngest constitutional officers elected in the United States, Greenberg has also brought much needed innovation to his tax offices, including the offering of tax services online and buying old bank properties in order to provide those services in a drive-thru capacity.. Ben Friedman, the director of community relations for Orlandos Jewish federation, said Greenbergs question was disgraceful and that Greenberg was, basically, a shanda. What could go wrong?. That set off a cascade of criminal charges against Mr. Greenberg filed in four indictments, including that he used drivers licenses surrendered to his office to create fake IDs for women with whom he engaged in sugar daddy relationships. Prosecutors say he obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans from a Covid-19 relief program and embezzled more than $400,000 from the county. As an innovator and entrepreneur, Mr. Greenberg brings extensive experience in business and technology to the Seminole County Tax Collectors office., It added, Since taking office as Tax Collector, Mr. Greenberg has directed the office to begin using new technologies to improve customer service, adding new services to increase customer convenience and to streamline the Offices budget which will increase the amount of hard earned dollars returned to taxpayers., The page continued, Mr. He raised five times as much money for a primary challenge, almost all self-funded his father founded an empire of dental offices and ousted the incumbent. One of my best friends is Muslim, and I have a Black brother, Greenberg told the Orlando Weekly. Gaetz Associate Admits Introducing Other Adult Men To Minor For Paid Sex In Guilty Plea As Gaetz Maintains Innocence (Forbes), Judge Approves Plea Deal For Matt Gaetzs Friend Joel Greenberg (Forbes), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) (Photo by Samuel, Gaetz Associate Admits Introducing Other Adult Men To Minor For Paid Sex In Guilty Plea As Gaetz Maintains Innocence, Judge Approves Plea Deal For Matt Gaetzs Friend Joel Greenberg. Joel Greenberg is a millionaire, mostly because of his stake in the dental practice. Greenberg . Engels, according to the Sentinel, engaged in the same political dirty tricks that has been Stones specialty since the Nixon presidency: In 2016 he filed a report accusing Valdes of assault, but the prosecutor said Engels was only seeking a confrontation. Days after Mr. Greenberg was first indicted last year, a woman crashed her car into a tree a few hundred yards from his home early one morning, according to a crash report. Scott Maxwell, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, said on Twitter after The Times story broke that Greenberg has kept the paper busy, related to his escapades alleged and otherwise. When sheriffs deputies went to rearrest him at his home in Lake Mary, Mr. Greenberg claimed to have explosives and threatened to harm himself, according to a deputys report. Under that deal, Greenberg had the Tax Collector's Office purchase a former bank building on State Road 434 for $810,000 in public cash hours after a company recently formed by Adamczyk . [26] A fourth delay was granted in May, with sentencing likely in August. He was 31 and had recently married Abby Weldgen, a real-estate agent. He denies all allegations. Just one. [3][8], Greenberg resigned from his office on June 24, 2020. But then, Greenberg knows the risks of keeping controversial company. Mr. Greenberg made the speaking lineup at a Trump rally in Sanford, Fla., in 2016. Abby Greenberg, who is a real estate agent, would receive a commission from the sale from the home that is necessary to support the couples two children since Joel Greenberg is not paying any child support or alimony, according to the court filing. He was accused of setting up a Bitcoin scheme against his own office, Orlando Weekly reported. Greenberg broke parole this month when he figured out his wife had decamped from their home to her mothers house 2 1/2 hours away. Four Jupiter police officers and a supervising sergeant responded to an apartment following the 911 call on Feb. 28. Copyright 2023 ClickOrlando.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. Mr. Dorworth announced on Friday that he had resigned from the firm. A photo on Facebook showed Greenberg speaking at a Trump rally. [11] He also bought memorabilia and other items. As an adult, Greenberg has identified himself as being Jewish. The following Monday, an employee found the alarm deactivated and drivers licenses strewn over a desk. [8], Over the course of Greenberg's employment as a tax collector, he was reported to have spent over $1 million on contracts and other purchases. Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County, Florida, tax commissioner, had faced decades in prison on 33 federal counts that ranged from identity theft to sex trafficking of a minor, as well as . Greenberg's wife told. He was also photographed with Roger Stone, a former Trump adviser accused of crimes but later pardoned by the president. The inquiry into Mr. Trumps role in paying hush money to the porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign has spanned five years, two Manhattan district attorneys and multiple grand juries. 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