Jim Greer Jail Audio Recordings

The St. Petersburg Times has partial transcripts of indicted former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer's phone conversations. A box Delmar Johnson dropped off at the house is mentioned in Greer's conversation with his wife Lisa.

"Are the agents still there?" Greer asked.

"Yeah," said his wife, who repeatedly noted their calls were being recorded and that their bank accounts were searched.

"You should show 'em where everything is," Greer said. "There's nothing to hide there. There's that box that Delmar dropped that's in the garage."

I am curious about what is in the box. Johnson helped Greer set up Victory Strategies. Greer and Johnson owned the company and set up bogus billing accounts with the RPOF. The one little problem is they got caught and Johnson has been granted immunity to testify against Greer. One outside of jail recording has Greer talking to Johnson.

“I was hearing all last week that you were throwing me under the bus and you were saying a lot of things that I was finding very hard to believe that you would say,” Greer said.

“Yeah, no and I’m not doing that at all,” Johnson replied.

Johnson did throw Greer under the bus. Greer is facing a possible 77 years in prison.

Jim Greer Indicted

I am interested in how the Republican Party of Florida is going to present their message of fiscal conservatism. It is hard to tell people you value every dollar after former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer is indicted on one count of organized fraud, one count grand theft and four counts of felony grand theft. Any Florida Republican that had a RPOF credit card (I'm talking to you Marco Rubio) should be laughed out of the room every time he utters the words "fiscal conservatism." It is hard to be a fiscal conservative when Florida Republicans are using donor money for limos and trips to Las Vegas. Rubio's staff spent money on a limo and Greer dropped $41,421.31 in Vegas.

Using the Republican Party of Florida as a personal ATM was not enough for Greer. He came up with the scheme to set up a bogus political consulting company called Victory Strategies. Prosecutors say Greer received $125,000 of the $200,000 the RPOF paid to Victory Strategies. That explains why Greer had a paper shredding machine at the RPOF headquarters.

Greer was handpicked by Gov. Charlie Crist. This is may cause Crist some problems. So far Crist as been teflon when his name has been mentioned with Greer's. Attorney General Bill McCollum was involved in nogotiating Greer's severance package and has been slow to react to the RPOF money scandals. McCollum is Florida's leading law enforcement officer. As head of the RPOF, Greer cleared the GOP primary for McCollum's campaign for Governor. I have serious doubts that McCollum wants to air out the RPOF's dirty laundry during an election year.