East Cleveland

Council clerk given protection order against East Cleveland Councilman Timothy Austin

CLEVELAND, OH – A civil stalking protection order has been granted against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin for the threats of violence and sexual harassment he has directed at Clerk of Council Stacey White before and after she filed criminal and harassment complaints against him.  The order protects White, her East Cleveland resident husband and two children until December 27, 2025.  Austin has engaged in the type of conduct that can have him removed from council. Austin must now appear before the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on July 11, 2025 at 9 a.m. for a full hearing.  Both…

Read More

Usurper Sandra Morgan retains county landbank’s law firm, Roetzel & Andress, to help her keep mayor’s job she’s stealing

CLEVELAND, OH – The growing suspicion that predominantly American Negro populated East Cleveland, Ohio is intentionally being destabilized for a takeover by ethnic cleansing minded Cuyahoga County players is becoming more confirmed with each fight Mayor Lateek Shabazz has to engage in to assume the mayor’s office.  His latest obstacle is a quo warranto mayoral usurper Sandra Morgan appears to have retained the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Commission’s (CCLRC) law firm to file on her behalf.  Roetzel and Andress. The CCLRC is a 30-acre slum property owner whose officials have engaged two East Cleveland’s mayors, convicted ex-mayor Brandon King and…

Read More

Sandra Morgan acts like “Brandon King in a skirt” as she uses fired city attorney Heather McCollough to answer Mayor Lateek Shabazz’s quo warranto

CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan will soon learn she should have listened when Ideastream’s Matt Richmond incredulously asked her if she was relying on an unethical criminally minded ex-city attorney named Heather McCollough for legal advice. When the granddaughter of stoplight inventor Garrett Morgan answered “yes,” her June 3, 2025 broadcast words created evidence of a violation of Section 102.03(D) and (E) of the Ohio Revised Code that led to ex-Mayor Brandon King’s conviction. When McCollough filed a “motion to dismiss” on Morgan’s behalf the next day, June 4, 2025, using city hall’s address and telephone numbers to identify her work…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

Over $1 million in fees and fines concealed in Judge Will Dawson’s court clerk’s safe

Judge William Dawson had no idea Mayor Brandon King's ex-finance director, Charles Iyahen, was involved in a scheme to pay his wife $107,000 a year. Iyahen should have deducted the county's percentage from the $64,500 Dawson approved and returned the difference to the court's budget.

CLEVELAND, OH – While it’s a duty of the director of finance of a municipal corporation to report to the legislative authority about the condition of its finances, Charles Efosa Iyahen kept his mouth shut about the more than $1 million in fees and fines his clerk of court wife stockpiled in an East Cleveland municipal court office safe for over three years.  State officials learned from me on February 28, 2023 that Iyahen and Judge William Dawson’s clerk of court, Wendy Jonelle Howard, were married in 2022.  She’s now Mrs. Wendy Jonelle Iyahen. The quiet Las Vegas wedding occurred…

Read More