Michael Shirley was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 7 years in federal prison.

A former associate of ex-Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg will learn how much time he'll spend in federal prison.

An associate of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg has been released from federal prison nearly two months early after testifying at the recent trial of another Greenberg associate.

An attorney who represented an associate of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg is apologizing for talking to jurors and questioning them about their verdict shortly after they convicted his client of bribery-related charges.

Minutes after a jury convicted a political consultant of paying a bribe to former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, a defense attorney improperly approached jurors outside the federal courthouse and questioned them about their verdict, according to the judge who presided over the case.

A federal jury convicted Michael Shirley of paying a $6,000 kickback to former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg in 2017 in exchange for maintaining a lucrative consulting contract with the tax collector's office.

Agents with the U.S. Secret Service found a computer USB hard drive containing 80 images of child pornography inside a vehicle owned by former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg in 2021, but he was never criminally charged for that offense, according to statements made Tuesday in a federal courtroom.

As jury selection began in the trial of a consultant accused of bribing former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, federal prosecutors said one of their key witnesses plans to assert his fifth amendment constitutional right against self-incrimination if questioned about child sex trafficking.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of Michael Shirley, an associate of disgraced Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg who is accused of bribing the former public official in 2017.

Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other federal crimes, is expected to testify at the upcoming trial of an associate accused of bribery.

A former consultant for the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office claims checks written to former tax collector Joel Greenberg were not bribes — they were car registration payments.