BREAKING - Internet is down at the Osceola County Supervisor of Elections office. Precincts cannot upload Election Day results. Machine results are being manually driven to the SOE. Results expected to be delayed several hours #News6
.@VoteOsceola Elections Supervisor Mary Jane Arrington says she’s in contact with @Ask_Spectrum but has not been told why internet is down at SOE office. Canvassing board continues to process mail-in ballots received today as precinct machines are driven in. #news6#Florida
Important — The voting results and physical paper ballots remain safely in the voting machines. The internet is simply used to conveniently upload the data to the Osceola Elections Supervisor so the public can be informed of results. #news6
.@Ask_Spectrum says “A construction crew unrelated to Spectrum severed a bundle of fiber optic cables in Kissimmee that serves the Supervisor of Elections office. We have crews onsite working to repair the damage and restore service as quickly as possible.” #news6
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FIRST ON #NEWS6: Videos show the aftermath of Gov. Ron DeSantis motorcade crash in Tennessee last week. clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
This is what a Chattanooga police officer said while surveying the damage after DeSantis’s motorcade crash, which was reportedly triggered by a dog running on the interstate.
Neither Florida officials nor DeSantis’s presidential campaign will say whether taxpayers will cover the cost of these damaged rental cars… and the additional rental cars that replaced them.
EXPLOSIVE new allegations about former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg were just made in court during the bribery trial of his former consultant Michael Shirley. A 🧵… 1/
After Greenberg’s arrest in 2021, the US Secret Service found a thumb drive in Greenberg’s car that contained 80 images of child pornography, according to Shirley’s attorney. 2/
Greenberg later told federal investigators he downloaded the child pornography with the intent to frame an attorney at the tax collector’s office (who also happened to be Greenberg’s former uncle), per Shirley’s defense. 3/
The newly-renamed Reedy Creek Improvement District board appointed by @GovRonDeSantis just discovered the former board signed last-minute agreements with Disney granting the company enormous power to develop its property. 1/
The new Reedy Creek (now CFTOD) board is now considering legal action to address the agreements between Disney and the old board, which were approved weeks before @GovRonDeSantis signed the law altering the special taxing district. 2/
“I cannot think of a more naked attempt to circumvent the will of the voters, the will of the legislature, and the will of the governor,” said one board member, who read aloud one of the reported agreements between Disney and the former Reedy Creek board. 3/
For the first time since Tommy Zeigler was sent to Florida’s Death Row, a prosecutor wants to use taxpayer money to examine evidence from the 1975 quadruple murder. Zeigler’s supporters believe he didn’t receive a fair trial and may be innocent. clickorlando.com/news/local/202… 1/4
.@NinthCircuitSAO Monique Worrell is seeking to examine decades-old fingerprint evidence at an estimated $2,400 cost. Her office says it must have the ability to respond if Tommy Zeigler attempts to introduce new DNA test evidence in court. 2/4
A judge recently allowed Tommy Zeigler to conduct DNA testing on evidence at a private lab at his own expense. That testing is underway right now. Zeigler’s longtime attorney is praising State Attorney Monique Worrell for reviewing his conviction. 3/4
This newly uncovered log obtained by #News6 reveals how state agencies send hundreds of requested public records to @GovRonDeSantis for “review”, where they can remain for weeks or months. 2/9
Batches of records associated with one @GovRonDeSantis attorney were returned to state agencies during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday weeks. Some had been there 9+ months. 3/9
BREAKING: Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Before being sentenced, Greenberg apologized to the teacher he wrongly smeared as a pedophile and to the then-17-year-old girl he met through a “sugar daddy” website.
“Nothing I say today can justify my actions. My conduct was so shameful,”Greenberg told the court. “To the people of Seminole County, I let you down and betrayed your trust.”