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Baitball Blogger

(46,682 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 05:57 PM Jan 2014

Jim Greer, ex-Florida GOP chair, now sells recliners

Jim Greer, the disgraced former chairman of the Florida GOP, is now selling La-Z-Boy recliners for $8 an hour plus commission at an Orlando-area furniture store as part of a prison work release program.

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His fall from power in 2010 was spectacular – from big-spending Tallahassee political power broker to indicted and now convicted criminal.

He pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and one count of money laundering in an Orlando courtroom last year and was sentenced to 18 months in prison

But instead of behind bars, he's now assigned to an Orlando work release facility on Mercy Drive. It has no bars and no prison-like security, although, it is fenced

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-jim-greer-la-z-boy-orlando-20140103,0,5883214.story

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Jim Greer, ex-Florida GOP chair, now sells recliners (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jan 2014 OP
The Chair, shouldn't have any trouble selling the Chair. Historic NY Jan 2014 #1
Oh, karma. Baitball Blogger Jan 2014 #2
He pled guilty to protect others.... Sancho Jan 2014 #3
Considering who he is protecting, I'm sure he'll land on his feet. Baitball Blogger Jan 2014 #4

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
3. He pled guilty to protect others....
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 07:06 PM
Jan 2014

so he will serve is county club sentence, and get his rewards (he hopes) later.

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