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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Ellen Greenberg: Feds Investigate Philadelphia Agencies for Corruption—Shapiro, Schwartzman, and the Cover-Up That Took 15 Years to Unravel

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is the episode we've been waiting fifteen years to make. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has reportedly issued subpoenas to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Medical Examiner's Office, and other agencies—including the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office that Josh Shapiro ran when the case sat on his desk for four years.

Sources tell the Philadelphia Inquirer this isn't about how Ellen Greenberg died. It's about whether the people who handled her case committed federal crimes.

Ellen was found with twenty stab wounds, ten to the back of her neck, a knife lodged four inches into her chest. The medical examiner ruled it homicide. Then police objected. Then the ruling changed to suicide. Then the crime scene was cleaned—with police permission—before detectives could process it. Then James Schwartzman, Samuel Goldberg's uncle and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, removed laptops and phones from the apartment. Those devices later became the basis for the official suicide narrative—even though the original report said no suicidal searches were found.

Now federal prosecutors want to know what happened. The statutes they're working with carry penalties up to life in prison. Deprivation of rights under color of law. Evidence tampering. Obstruction. Conspiracy.

Governor Shapiro has presidential ambitions. His former spokesperson now works for Philadelphia's mayor. Schwartzman sits on the bench as a Pennsylvania judge. None of them have been charged—but all of them may have to answer uncomfortable questions to people who can compel the truth.

The Greenbergs waited fifteen years for someone outside Philadelphia to take this seriously. Someone finally is.

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0:00.0

is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:02.8

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.3

15 years.

0:07.8

That's how long Josh and Sandy Greenberg have been told their daughter stabbed herself 23 times.

0:13.0

Ten of those.

0:14.4

In the back of her own neck.

0:16.6

And then kept going after severing her spinal cord.

0:20.8

Because that's what you do when you're determined, right?

0:23.3

And she was...

0:24.4

She was determined, right?

0:28.3

That's like, I guess, what the...

0:30.0

That's what the official story is.

0:33.2

Well, a woman stabbed herself 20 sometimes, including fatal injuries,

0:36.6

and continued stabbing herself post-mortem.

0:39.3

We've talked about this case a gazillion times.

0:41.2

We're going to get into a different angle of this because there's some new progress here.

0:45.1

There's a federal investigation going on into the people who investigated this thing in the first place.

0:50.5

The people we've been talking about for years going, what the hell are you talking about?

0:54.8

She's a zombie?

0:56.2

She came back from the dead and stabbed herself post-mortem?

0:59.8

That's impossible.

1:02.7

But to keep it on papers.

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