East Cleveland corruption

Yost is 3 years behind on auditing the state’s worst managed city

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – The General Assembly of Ohio gave the Auditor of State the duty of auditing every government agency “inside” the state annually or a minimum of every two years.    East Cleveland’s 2014 audit was released on  May 15, 2018 three years after David Yost in his official capacity was supposed to deliver it. The city is in fiscal emergency for the second time since 1988.  Betty Montgomery was the Republican state auditor who released the city from fiscal emergency in February 2006.  But she did it without providing the incoming mayor and council with a current…

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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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