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Jim Greer’s attorney is threatening to call some of the biggest names in Florida politics to the stand to discuss their role and knowledge of a scheme to funnel campaign contributions to a consulting company Greer owned. Greer stepped down as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida shortly before news of his consulting company’s deal with the party came to light. One of the people Greer’s attorney is seeking a deposition from is Attorney General Bill McCollum. McCollum says he’s happy to write a deposition.

“It’s an ordinary course of discover, which you do in civil or criminal cases and people find out if I have any information to share that is of value to them,” said McCollum.

McCollum’s primary opponent for the Republican nomination in the governor’s race, Rick Scott, says McCollum should hire an outside council to prosecute Greer. Right now the Office of Statewide Prosecution is handling the case. The office answers to the Attorney General.

“We need to have an independent investigation and we need that transparency. We all need to know what happened. We hope nothing happened. We want to feel good about our political party. We want to feel good about the process, but the only way we are going to feel good about this is if there is an independent investigation and there’s clear transparency in what happened,” said Scott.

McCollum plans to keep the Office of Statewide Prosecution on the case.