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Illegal Noble Road dump operator headed for trial in 2019

George Michael Riley is an environmental terrorist who is being investigated by federal agents for bribing elected and appointed public officials to receive demolition contracts he dumped illegally behind residential homes on Noble Road; and within 1000 feet of Collinwood High School and Apex Charter Elementary School.

EAST CLEVELAND, OH –  Witnesses are starting to receive notices from Ohio Attorney General Richard Michael DeWine to appear in the civil trial next year of George Michael Riley and Christine Beynon for operating an illegal construction and demolition debris dump in a densely-populated urban neighborhood and behind residential homes.  The trial is scheduled for June 24, 2019 in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and has been assigned to Judge Sean Gallagher.  DeWine wants Riley and Beynon to pay $10,000 a day in fines for every day they were in violation of state laws that prohibitted illegal dumping.  EJBNEWS obtained…

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Recalled ex-East Cleveland mayor and wife dissolve marriage

This 44112 News photo shows former "First Couple" Gary and Shalom Norton while they were living well off East Cleveland and Cleveland taxpayers.

Cleveland school teacher Shalom Norton’s marriage to recalled ex-East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton was dissolved by Domestic Relations Judge Tonya Jones on September 18, 2018.  The two have entered a child support agreement.    Judge Jones, wife of Cleveland councilman Joe Jones, lifted the protection order one of the former marriage partners sought against the other.  There’s no record of a domestic violence complaint on file with Cleveland or East Cleveland’s municipal courts.  Shalom confronted another woman at the county administration when Norton was an aide to ex-commissioner Peter Lawson Jones as he was accused of being involved in an…

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