Ex-Fla. GOP Chairman Jim Greer Arrested, Released

[The Straight Story]

Ex-Fla. GOP Chairman Jim Greer Arrested, Released
Greer Resigned In February Amid Spending Claims


ORLANDO, Fla. -- The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida has been released on bond after he was arrested Wednesday on a charge of running a scam bilking money from the party.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement took Jim Greer, 47, into custody at his Oviedo home, which is located near Orlando. He is charged with one count of organized fraud, four counts of felony grand theft and one count of money laundering, said William Shepherd, Florida's statewide prosecutor.

Greer funneled party money to a company called Victory Strategies that he controlled and concealed his relationship with, investigators said. On Greer's orders, the Republican Party of Florida paid Victory Strategies for campaign work, much of which was never performed. That was in addition to a 10 percent cut of major donations to the party that Greer took along with his top assistant, Delmar Johnson, Shepherd said.

Greer got about $125,000 of the almost $200,000 that the party paid Victory Strategies, the statewide prosecutor said.

http://www.clickorlando.com/politics/23767265/detail.html

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1. Grand theft, money laundering

Yeah, let's release him on bail; no flight risk here!

On the other hand, he was filching money from the Florida Republicans, so it's hard to know who to root for: Law and order or just another in a long line of Republican political grifters. At least Greer wasn't stealing bread off of poor people's tables. At least, not directly.

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2. He's probably a friend of Jeb Bush.

So I'll bet he was out of jail in the blink of an eye.

[lib2DaBone]

3. Friends of Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Jeb Bush.....

Business as usual.... Slimy-smelly-stinky-putrid-rotten-puss-filled Republicans...