SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg now faces 21 new federal charges, in addition to the 12 he was already facing.
The superseding indictment was filed on Tuesday, according to court records. The new charges include nine counts of wire fraud.
According to prosecutors, Greenberg diverted more than $400,000 in tax collector funds for his own personal gain. Greenberg used the tax collector’s American Express card to purchase cryptocurrency and used tax collector funds to operate a cryptocurrency mining operation for his own benefit and also used tax collector funds to run a business selling cryptocurrency mining tools to others, according to the indictment.