Joseph Ellicott, once a close friend of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, testified in federal court Wednesday that he served as a “middle man” to facilitate a bribe payment from a contractor to the elected official.
A pivotal witness for federal prosecutors in the case against Michael Shirley, a former consultant of Joel Greenberg, will testify despite the witness not answering questions about him allegedly having had sex with a 17-year-old girl — a snag that caused the judge to schedule an early hearing on Tuesday before Shirley’s trial continued. Warren Lindsey, an attorney representing Shirley, told a .
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ORLANDO, Fla. — After Seminole County’s tax collector Joel Greenberg finished having sex with an underage girl in a high-rise hotel room, he called his friend Joe Ellicott and invited him upstairs to also engage in illicit activity with the teenager, a defense attorney alleged in federal court Monday. Greenberg then paid the girl on behalf of Ellicott, and Ellicott offered the teen illegal .
After Seminole County’s tax collector Joel Greenberg finished having sex with an underage girl in a high-rise hotel room, he called his friend Joe Ellicott and invited him upstairs to also engage in illicit activity with the teenager, a defense attorney alleged in federal court Monday. Greenberg then paid the girl on behalf of Ellicott, and Ellicott offered the teen illegal drugs, including .