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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
National
Martin E. Comas

Not guilty plea entered for former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg in brief arraignment on latest charges

ORLANDO, Fla. — Although federal prosecutors and Joel Greenberg’s attorney said Thursday that they are working on a plea agreement, the former Seminole County tax collector pleaded not guilty Friday morning to the latest charges against him.

Those include that he used his public position to divert more than $400,000 of public money to himself and that he bribed a government official to obtain fraudulent loans through a program meant to help small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Greenberg’s latest not-guilty plea, which was expected, happened during a brief hearing before Magistrate Judge Leslie Hoffman, who accepted the plea.

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