Florida Republican Party

Fmr. FL GOP Official: Forensic Audit Of Party Books Will Show Widespread Cronyism

Justin Elliott | April 29, 2010, 1:57PM

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former Florida Republican Party Chair Jim Greer

Forensic auditors going through the books of the Florida Republican Party recently discovered that a close friend of Gov. Charlie Crist was paid over $350,000 for unspecified consulting work that no one seems to have known about. But, the former No. 2 at the state party tells TPMmuckraker, that revelation may be only the beginning.

"I think there were a lot of cronies that were receiving pay washed through the Republican Party of Florida," says Allen Cox, who stepped down as vice chair of the party in January after going after chairman and Crist ally Jim Greer, who was ousted soon after, for financial mismanagement.

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