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Joel Greenberg collected child pornography to frame in-house attorney, ex-consultant's defense says
Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg talks to the Orlando Sentinel, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, during an interview at his office in Lake Mary. - Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS

Joel Greenberg collected child pornography to frame in-house attorney, ex-consultant's defense says

ORLANDO, Fla. — A search by the U.S. Secret Service of disgraced Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg’s car yielded over 60 images of child pornography on a flash drive, which he intended to use to frame his office’s in-house counsel — his former uncle, attorney Richard Sierra, jurors in a federal trial heard Tuesday. That new allegation emerged in an opening statement by Ashley Parker, an attorney representing Michael Shirley, a former consultant for Greenberg’s office standing trial this week on bribery charges. Parker told jurors that Greenberg decided against framing Sierra, tellin...

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