Prosecutors in Greer trial reveal secret recording

[Baitball Blogger]

TALLAHASSEE — With his criminal trial dragging out, his reputation tattered and his family on food stamps, ousted Florida Republican Chairman Jim Greer may be nearing the end of a four-year political drama that has captivated the state's political class.

But new evidence being released by prosecutors shows it wasn't that long ago that he was secretly bragging about the money he got from state party coffers.

In a recent deposition in which the indicted former Republican Party of Florida chairman calls Republican higher-ups "whack-a-dos" and "crazies," in elaborating on the party rebellion that led to his resignation in 2010. But the statewide prosecutor's office also released other documents this week, including a March 2010 recording of former executive director-turned-prosecution witness Delmar Johnson wearing a wire in Greer's Oviedo home.

With Greer's child crying in the background, the two men discussed how to divvy out the tax liability from the nearly $200,000 that RPOF had paid the Victory Strategies LLC entity they had created. Greer questioned repeatedly how much they had both been paid (Greer $125,000, Johnson $65,000 from RPOF funds. Greer also got $39,000 through Victory Strategies from his RPOF chairman re-election committee).

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-27/news/os-jim-greer-evidence-shows-bragging-20120727_1_victory-strategies-greer-s-oviedo-rpof

[sinkingfeeling]

1. How dare a Republican put his family on food stamps? Did they all have drug

tests prior to receiving assistance?