Charles Tyler

Mayor Morgan fires attorney who stole from East Cleveland taxpayers and aided Brandon King in committing crimes

CLEVELAND, OH – Interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan has enforced one of the two resolutions city council enacted on January 26, 2023, and removed Beachwood resident and ex-vendor attorney Willa Mae Hemmons from discharging any duties as the city’s director of law she’s been impersonating since the resolutions were enacted.  Hemmons’ last day was Monday, March 31, 2025. The lock to the law director’s office was ordered to be secured by Morgan two years and two months after Hemmons was officially fired by a resolution of council on January 26, 2023.  A city hall source said the office Hemmons…

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Smedley used his job with Mayor King to seek an annual $250,000 in bribes from 2 brothers conning foreign investors out of $10 million

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – It is obvious in reading the 69-page federal indictment of Michael Smedley, 56, Zubair Mehmet Abdur Razzaq Al Zubair, 41, and his brother Muzzammil Muhammad Al Zubair, 30, that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents had an intimate level of knowledge about the organized criminals.  Evidence includes numerous text messages, email, wire transfers of funds, receipts, letters, contracts, expensive Cleveland Browns loge and game tickets, Euclid police investigatory records, IRS records and what appears to be detailed conversations with cooperating witnesses. $10 million was on the table. The words in the 69-page indictment describe Smedley…

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State investigating East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King and Phyllis Mosley’s violation of civil service laws in hiring and promoting police

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – According to indicted Mayor Brandon King’s personal attorney, Willa Mae Hemmons, acting chief of police Kenneth Lundy was hired on June 5, 2016 by recalled ex-Mayor Gary Norton without civil service testing as a BPO.  While there is no such job classification as a BPO, East Cleveland city council codified a non-classified Beat Patrol Commissioned Officer (BPCO) position in July 1998 that gave mayors the authority to hire them for six months to work on special police assignments. They earn no more than a 3rd grade patrol officer and must officially be “reappointed” by the mayor…

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Court corrects record to show Brandon King “retained” attorney Charles Tyler and that he is not court appointed counsel for the indicted mayor

CLEVELAND, OH – Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Hollie Gallagher issued a November 26, 2024 nunc pro tunc order correcting a docket that shows Akron attorney Charles Tyler being assigned to Brandon King as his court-appointed counsel on November 19, 2024.  The docket read on that day how King was declared “indigent.” The docket now reads that King, the Defendant, retained Tyler.  His status as an indigent was removed.  King has still not responded to a public records request for any recent contracts he’s entered and paid Tyler for legal representation. Since May 2023 Tyler’s received $54,230 in…

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Mayor King’s wife and mother admit to 5th degree felony election falsification

CLEVELAND, OH – When East Cleveland Mayor Brandon L. King realized the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE) had bought his lie of residing at 1735 Elsinore Street, he selfishly left the room with the two lawyers who were supposed to also represent his mother, wife and two brothers.  Attorneys James Alexander and Charles Tyler.  Comments were made that King was throwing his 82-year-old mother under the bus when he left her to fend for herself. King’s mother, Norma, and brothers, Cecil, Jr. and Norman, did not fare as well as Brandon did.  Neither did King’s wife, Cleveland Clinic registered…

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