CLEVELAND, OH – When East Cleveland’s Clerk of Council Stacey White filed a June 23, 2025 sexual harassment and a criminal complaint against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin, she officially transmitted both documents to attorney Heather McCollough. McCollough signed the documents as received.
Since McCollough was usurping East Cleveland’s prosecutor’s office, the attorney should have opened an investigation into White’s allegations if she was pretending to hold the job lawfully. What the malicious prosecuting attorney impersonator did was conspire with Austin to retaliate against White the next day.
McCollough had received pictures of ex-employee Dorian Hudson’s penis she must have liked because she didn’t criminally charge the Brandon King hire for sexually abusing her and other female employees. Even while King was being prosecuted for giving Smith a city car and gas card for his personal use, McCollough took no steps to charge him for giving Hudson a city vehicle and gas card for his personal use. She really liked his pictures. Any sexual attention for McCollough was better than no sexual attention at all.
The evidentiary trail Austin and McCollough created in their misuse of two public offices to retaliate against White was self-incriminating. McCollough crafted a letter of termination on former interim Mayor Sandra Morgan’s letterhead for Austin to terminate White. Council has its own letterhead, and the use of Morgan’s letterhead by McCollough and Austin was allegedly without her knowledge or permission.
By doing so, McCollough dragged the “administration” into the affairs of council a mayor has no authority to supervise. The unethical hood rat of an attorney did so without any regard for how it would affect Morgan or expose the municipal corporation to yet another legal action. Section 113(A) of East Cleveland’s charter instructs mayors not to supervise any of council’s affairs.
In my interactions with Austin since 2023, he exists among King, Michael Smedley, Willa Mae Hemmons and McCollough as the most intentionally malicious people to ever hold office in the city. Austin signed in his retaliatory termination letter that he obtained a legal opinion from “the law department.”
The slow-witted mini-intellect was operating as if the “secret” legal opinion McCollough allegedly wrote gave the vice president of council the authority of the president of council to justify his “Lone Ranger” decision to retaliate against and terminate council’s employee. It didn’t.
Austin had not requested the “legal opinion” from McCollough in writing in compliance with Rule 8(d) of Council’s Rules of Order and Section 733.54 of the Ohio Revised Code. He did not produce a copy of it. If it existed in writing, McCollough didn’t, also, have the authority to let Austin use a document Rule 8(d) required to be maintained as confidential. To use a compliant legal opinion required council approval during a public meeting, three-fifths concurring, and for it to be read into the record.
Rule 8(d) also set forth the procedure for written requests for legal opinions as being the same as a written request for legislation. McCollough needed Mayor Lateek Shabazz’s written permission to proceed had Austin properly requested a legal opinion in writing to the “director of law.” King was convicted of a violation of Section 102.03(B) of the Ohio Revised Code. It instructs officials that information required to be statutorily confidential cannot be used unless it is lawfully allowed.
Since there’s no oath of office or bond authorizing McCollough to discharge the legal opinion writing duties of a “director of law,” or a bond approved by council for her to discharge that official’s duties, the words on Austin’s document weren’t worth the paper they were written on. Austin was using a sham legal document a malicious usurper of the city’s prosecutor’s office had created to support his malicious, retaliatory and duty-exceeding acts against a complaining witness.
McCollough was proving why she was terminated by Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz, and why the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party’s Cleveland ward clubs voted 147 to 3 against her candidacy for a municipal court judgeship. Democrats gave former East Cleveland resident and attorney Inson Loving a record-breaking 95.6 percent of their vote as their preferred candidate over McCollough.
Councilman Twon Billings told EJBNEWS.COM before Austin approached White with his retaliatory termination letter, that he saw McCollough and Austin at the police window with malicious intent. Shortly later he witnessed Austin visit the council office with three female police officers to escort White from the building. Billings had earlier in the week told Austin he should have no interactions with White when he witnessed him recording her with a bodycam.
One of the so-called peace officers who approached White, April Bailey, was supposed to be on desk duty for a bar fight, though she should have been terminated as a probationary employee acting Chief of Police Kenneth Lundy called himself recruiting without a civil service test. None of the city’s police hires and ranking officers are civil service tested. Not even Lundy.
In 2017 Bailey was charged with aggravated burglary along with two other women after the armed trio entered another woman’s Somerset Avenue home in Glenville and assaulted her. They were chased out when another occupant started shooting at them. The bullets entered the home of African American History Museum director Frances Caldwell’s son and flew past her granddaughter. These are facts White knew about the law enforcement impersonators King and now Morgan let Lundy manage.
Billings said he intervened when Austin entered the council office with the three civil service impersonating female peace officers as backup. Austin was told the vice president of council had no authority to terminate the clerk of council and that White was not terminated. He told the officers to leave. He later learned the usurper in the police chief’s office, Lundy, had turned off White’s key fob.
Billings said computer technician Claude Mitchell had also criminally deleted the public records associated with her official email account and obstructed her access to the council office computer. Mitchell had also refused to give her the remote access she requested. He called himself filing a complaint against Billings for entering his office when he is well-documented for his own violations of Section 2913.04 of the Ohio Revised Code. Council, not the mayor or an employee, determines how the city’s property is used.
Mitchell and Lundy were operating on the sham termination letter McCollough had written for Austin that Morgan’s executive assistant, Mansell Baker, was confirmed as showing them. White had replaced Baker as clerk of council after he was terminated by Shabazz for interfering in Morgan’s affairs. Morgan hired him as an executive assistant who now calls himself “chief of staff” though council has approved no wages for the position since 1999.
Billings said he told Morgan she needed to control the law-breaking employees she’d inherited from King and that White was not terminated. Morgan agreed and said White should return to work June 30, 2025 without a loss of pay.
Austin, McCollough and Baker had dragged her into a controversy with council that reminded Billings and Blochowiak of King’s obstruction of its affairs. Though council’s authority is over the budget and each employee’s wages, King taught them to disrespect council and rewarded their insolence with job protections.
Austin saw White as an obstacle to promoting CCLRC’s agenda
Austin’s retaliatory acts against White with McCollough and Baker’s help appear motivated by her refusal to participate in his schemes to promote the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Commission’s (CCLRC) agenda. Austin admitted during a recorded June 11, 2025 council committee meeting that he received a $17,500 house from the CCLRC that came with a $20,000 unreported grant while he was a 2023 candidate for council. Austin said he secretly paid the CCLRC $5000 though Cuyahoga County property records he filed with the county recorder show he didn’t pay a dime to house his mother.
White knew the CCLRC was being criminally investigated as a property laundering operation. She knew Austin was asking her to disregard laws associated with the legislation he was obtaining from unknown sources that supported CCLRC and OHM Advisors projects.
White had been trying to train the council, as I had done, to comply with laws and rules. Austin was frustrated by her unwillingness to continue the unlawful practices he’d learned from King that resulted in his and Ernest Smith’s convictions. White suspected Austin was being directed by Smedley and King. Billings sarcastically described King as Austin’s “daddy.”
The clerk of council reminded Austin and Morgan of their duties to comply with East Cleveland’s charter and council’s rules regarding the transmittal of legislation. She had been correctly refusing so-called “legislation” Austin was giving her to place before the municipal corporation’s legislative authority. Austin’s so-called “legislation” was often just a “preamble” with no body or supporting documents.
King had allowed vendors to create their own legislation and had given a CCLRC-friendly engineering firm, OHM Advisors, control of the city’s public bidding process. White had alerted Morgan that recent bids OHM officials opened were voided by Section 75 of the charter. Section 72 of the charter directs the mayor to open all bids on the last day of bidding at 12 noon in the mayor’s office. OHM Advisors officials were warned by this writer that their control of the city’s public bidding process was criminal.
King, the convicted ex-mayor, had embedded the CCLRC’s attorneys into the city’s legal affairs. White was beginning to see in her own experiences with the employees and vendors Morgan inherited from King that public bidding laws and procedural requirements were being bypassed or rigged.
White knew that all legislation is required by Rule 8 of council’s codified Rules of Order to be transmitted from the mayor to the clerk of council for transmittal to council. There is no other lawful procedure for transmitting legislation. White was documenting the absence of required records associated with the “legislation” coming before the council. When a law requires an official to create a record to document their acts, the absence of the required records is evidence of a crime.
Austin didn’t have any authorizing documents tied to his mysterious legislation, as a single member of council. He also had no authority to request legislation on his own, or to have it created with his name as a sponsor in advance of a public meeting. In his stupid mind Austin wanted White, a Harvard educated woman whose Harvard educated father once served as East Cleveland’s director of law, to disregard laws and rules to carry out his “orders.” In his termination letter, Austin ridiculously blamed White for not telling him how to fill the vacancy in the council presidency.
Austin was humiliated by White’s refusal to accept the sham June 2, 2025 oath of office he was administered by Richardson that declared him to be the president of council. Between both their brains, neither Austin nor Richardson thought to review council’s 24 rules before their ignorance embarrassed them. Morgan witnessed Austin and Richardson swearing in that violated Rule 23(c).
This writer was on the phone with White when she returned to the council office after 5 p.m. and the two simple-minded “lawmakers” entered the office, and Austin made his “I’m the president of council” announcement. White told him she could not accept it but made a copy of his sham oath as evidence of its existence. She had returned to prepare the agenda for a next day meeting of council, not to deal with Austin and Richardson’s disruptive ignorance.
Austin wanted to know why she would not accept his sham oath, and White directed him to the instructions of Rule 23(c) of Council’s 24 Rules of Order neither he nor Richardson had read or mastered. After nearly six years on council, Austin did not have a sixth graders level of knowledge about a repetitive series of charter and ordinance instructions that told him how to legislate the city’s business.
I heard in Austin’s tone a confident ignorance that gave him a level of false superiority in his interaction with White. He insisted that she accept and file his oath as if she had no other choice but to obey him. Ignorant hood folk in elected office like to flex their “I’m your boss” muscles when interacting with professionally trained people who know more than them.
Austin’s insistence generated an equal but respectful pushback from White. In a very direct tone of voice, I heard White ask both Austin and Richardson if they had copies of Rule 23(c). They said no and she said she would make a copy of the rules for each.
After copying and handing Austin and Richardson the council rules they should have mastered their first year as legislators, White asked if they wanted to read it together, or if they wanted her to read it. Austin told White, “Oooh. I like it when you talk rough.” His words were associated with the mindset of a submissive who practices sado-masochistic sex.
I heard White remind Austin that she had a husband, and he should not speak to her in that way. She returned her attention to reading council’s Rule 23(c) to them both. The words below instructed Austin how to fill the council president’s vacancy his termination letter falsely claimed White had not advised him on.
“Vacancy. When a vacancy occurs in the office of President or Vice President, it shall be filled, by motion, by the vote of three-fifths of the members of Council.”
The instructions in Rule 23(c) were clear that both Austin and Richardson had engaged in dereliction of duty, a violation of Ordinance No. 525.12(d) and (e), when he appointed himself to the council presidency. Each had exceeded the authority of their elected offices. The office of council president is vacant and there are no statutory instructions for the vice president to receive that official’s pay. There are four members of council and Austin knows he does not have a third vote from either Blochowiak or Billings.
Austin later admitted to former deputy Clerk of Council Justyn Anderson that White was correct, and he was wrong after she read Rule 23(c) to him. He told Anderson he could only preside over council’s meetings until the vacancy in the president’s office was filled.
Anderson said Austin also acknowledged that he was not granted the authority to hire and terminate the clerk of council from the vice presidency, as a duty reserved for the president of council. The law and rule violating conduct he’d learned from King had to be unlearned and Austin was resisting.
Despite all he acknowledged to Anderson, 15 days after giving White his rejected June 2, 2025 oath of office to assume the council presidency, Austin on June 16, 2025 transmitted an email to over 100 addresses with a lie so reckless that both White and Councilor Dr. Patricia Blochowiak can sue him for defamation. He crazily accused Blochowiak and White of “retroactively” appointing Blochowiak as council’s president.
Greetings Leaders, Please come to this council meeting. It is becoming more necessary for your involvement. Councilor Blochowiak and the Clerk of Council owes you an explanation(?). They woke up today and decided to retroactively appoint Councilor Blochowiak as President of Council.
Proper Public notice is a must. When a legitimate Organizational meeting of Council is scheduled, we should know.
On 1 June 2025 something happened, but the legality is still being questioned. This is a no notice to the public or council meeting, in the dark (literally), and if the legitimate transfer of your representation is to happen as a resident, you should be notified.
I did not receive a notice of a meeting Sunday night meeting. I am the elected Council Vice President and cumulative senior member of Council. The State and County Governments would like to help our stable EC government, but this round of intentional chaos does not help our efforts. Bring a concerned resident with you.
Austin knew his claims were maliciously stupid because he knew he’d presided over council’s meetings since June 2, 2025. At no time between June 2, 2025 and his malicious June 16, 2025 email, did Blochowiak claim or operate as if she had secretly been elected to the council presidency. The residents who had attended council’s meetings knew it, too. So did McCollough whose June 2, 2025 email to White initiated the lie with the following words.
Pursuant to R.C. 149.43, the Ohio Public Records Act, I am requesting the following:
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A copy of the notice that was posted for the public of the organizational meeting where Councilor Blochowiak was named president of Council and Mr. Shabazz was sworn in as mayor
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A copy of the notice that was given to the members of city council of the organizational meeting’s date, place and time
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A copy of the oath of office of Mr. Shabazz after his swearing in
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The meeting minutes of the organizational meeting where Blochowiak was named president of council and Shabazz was sworn in as mayor
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A list of all council members who were present at this meeting and how they voted.
Austin’s curve graded education produced a semi-literate and poorly written email that published McCollough’s lie about Blochowiak. It motivated a gaggle of semi-literate disruptive rabble rousers, who operated as if his ignorantly malicious lies were the gospel, to attend the June 17, 2025 council meeting. As he had planned, Austin’s email created a hostile and potentially life-threatening environment for White, her husband and Blochowiak.
A police officer, Steven Kaleal, was called to restore order. Instead of dealing with rabble rousing residents like Lee Coleman and others who King had allowed to make derisive comments towards council and its employees, Kaleal directed his attention to White’s husband.
White’s husband, who was understandably angry but controlled, was standing at the microphone addressing the malicious email Austin had transmitted to the angry residents attacking his wife and Blochowiak with his lies. Kaleal told him he could not point his finger.
White, as the city’s clerk of council, knew Kaleal was impersonating a civil service tested and Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy trained police officer. Lundy had already admitted that all of the city’s police were hired and promoted in violation of city and state civil service laws. Morgan had administered oaths of office to four more Lundy recruits with questionably unacceptable backgrounds.
With over 30 police officers indicted for civil rights violations and violence between Norton and King’s administrations, White didn’t want Kaleal anywhere near her husband and citing a non-existent ordinance and law that restricted his physical expression of his verbally exercising his First Amendment rights.
Austin’s “misconduct” had disrupted the public meeting and the city’s official business with the stupid people who had created You Tube content by responding to his recklessly false words. This is the idiot who is going to be the senior member of East Cleveland city council in 2026. Richardson is going to be second in seniority. A clerk in the medical billing department at Cleveland Clinic with the intellectual comprehension of a gnat and the ethics of a slug.
White has obtained a temporary protection order against Austin. He can’t come within 15 feet of her and must stay out of the council office when she’s in it. He has to surrender his weapons to sheriff’s deputies and appear for a hearing on July 11, 2025. McCollough is a witness. Morgan may also be a witness. So might the three non-civil service tested so-called peace officers, Baker and Mitchell.
What the evidence shows is McCollough abused the usurped prosecutor’s office to create a defamatory lie about Blochowiak on June 2, 2025, under the guise of a public records request. Her false and defamatory words led to public hostilities being directed at Blochowiak and White by Austin and residents attending a June 17, 2025 council meeting.
When White filed a criminal and sexual harassment complaint against Austin for his misconduct, McCollough, knowing her own involvement, once again abused the municipal corporation’s law department to protect her own interests and obstructed her official requests from proceeding. McCollough has established a clear pattern and practice of concealing instead of reporting the criminal acts she witnesses, unless they involve her critics.
Austin’s termination letter and the acts leading up to it are evidence of collusion between him and McCollough in a conspiracy to obstruct the legislative affairs of the municipal corporation. It’s clear the malicious duo intended to prevent the enforcement of White’s allegations against Austin. It’s the same sick crap McCollough did to protect King’s violent and criminally motivated, non-civil service tested and uncertified private citizen peace officer impersonators.
Even on the June 27, 2025, the day White and her family were granted a restraining order from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas against Austin, he was disseminating an email claiming she was terminated and that he was in control of the city’s legislative branch of government. She’s not fired. He lacks the authority.
Morgan should make it clear to criminally obstructive employees that they have no individual authority to interfere with council’s affairs and to stop the underhanded acts that obstruct its officials and employees. For the time she occupies the mayor’s office, Morgan should treat council’s employees the same way she treats Judge William Dawson’s. Police should be given White’s protection order and Austin should have no cooperation from any official in disobeying it.
Morgan told this writer and conveyed to Blochowiak and Austin that she’s not asking her personal law firm, Roetzel and Andress, to give her an opinion since neither she nor council can rely on McCollough’s.
She can’t ask Bricker & Eckler nor Taft Stettinius as they have not been approved as legal vendors by council. Their contracts were voided by motion of council as unauthorized in 2024. It doesn’t matter if King ignored the motions. No funds were placed in the 2024 budget by council to pay any attorneys.
Neither firm is authorized by Section 733.54 of the Ohio Revised Code or council’s Rule 8(d) to author a legal opinion for the municipal corporation. One of Morgan’s biggest mistakes was keeping McCollough on her own, and after she was terminated by Shabazz.
You cannot lawfully manage a municipal corporation with a legal hood rat for an attorney.
