Wednesday, March 27, 2013

 

Ex-Florida GOP chair Jim Greer gets 1 1/2 years for stealing

Jim Greer was sentenced for funneling almost $200,000 to a company he formed, and for keeping more than 60 percent of that money.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida has been sentenced to 1 1/2 years for stealing more than $125,000 in party funds.
Jim Greer was sentenced in Orlando Wednesday, more than a month after he pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and a single count of money laundering.
The sentence was less severe than the 3 1/2 years in prison requested by prosecutors.
A trial had threatened to expose the underbelly of Florida's dominant political party and its formerly high-spending ways.
Topics covered in pretrial depositions included allegations of prostitutes at a fundraiser in the Bahamas and the drinking habits of former Gov. Charlie Crist.
Prosecutors say Greer funneled almost $200,000 to a company he formed with his right-hand man, and kept $125,000 for himself.`
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