Gary Norton

There is no “Circle East” as the Land Bank sells an Al Zubair brothers-like scheme 5 years after its contract expired

CLEVELAND, OH – Convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King and his former now convicted ex-chief of staff, Michael Leon Smedley, were involved in a scheme with two brothers to convince foreign investors to give them $10 million.  According to testimony during the federal trial that resulted in Smedley being jailed while he waits the long sentence he’s expected to receive, he, King and fired ex-law director Willa Mae Hemmons led investors to believe the brothers actually owned General Electric’s former Nela Park lighting division headquarters property. It’s similar to the scheme the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) employees used to…

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Quinlan’s running an OPOTA training records laundering operation out of the Attorney General’s office, and hiding uncertified cops from Ohio’s mayors, judges, prosecutors

CLEVELAND, OH — At precisely midnight on January 1, 2024, something extraordinarily criminal happened across the State of Ohio. One thousand and eighty-one police officers — men and women from 38 law enforcement agencies entrusted with the power to arrest, search, and use deadly force — ceased to exist as legal peace officers. They became private citizens impersonating law enforcement officers. Under Ohio law, a police officer’s authority is not a permanent appointment. It operates more like an annual driver’s license. It is a conditional privilege, renewed annually through mandatory training that is reported on computer systems owned by the…

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

Honorary British Consul and Order of British Excellency (OBE) Mayor Sandra Morgan arrives to work around 10 a.m. and hides in her office surrounded by her fiscal officer, a Jamaican national and an Eritrean refugee's daughter. No secretary. Employees aren't allowed in the mayor's "wing" like they were during the Shabazz administration.

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…

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Mayor Lateek Shabazz files quo warranto claim to remove usurping ex-interim Mayor Sandra Morgan from city hall

For the second time since he was appointed to East Cleveland City Council in 2023, Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz is dealing with a usurper claiming a right to his office. For nearly a year Mark McClain claimed he was Brandon King's "legally recognized" councilman and received Shabazz's wages. Now Sandra Morgan is stealing his wages and claiming to be East Cleveland's mayor after he was sworn into the job from the council presidency by Councilor Dr. Patricia Blochowiak.

CLEVELAND, OH – It is not difficult to see how former interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan misread Cuyahoga County Probate Court Judge Anthony Russo’s instructions on how long she could remain in office during convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King’s suspension.  In a June 1, 2025 response to now Mayor Lateek Shabazz’s Facebook announcement that he’d been administered the oath of office to assume the job King was removed from on his way to prison, Morgan posted, “You are NOT the mayor!  The Supreme Court will decide who holds the seat until the election.” The “until the election” response from…

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County landbank gifted Austin a free house valued at $17,500 while he campaigned to join East Cleveland city council

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) quit-claimed a free home addressed at 12600 Speedway Overlook to East Cleveland city council candidate Timothy Ray Austin on September 25, 2023.  The property exchange occurred 43 days before the general election in which Austin defeated incumbent Ward 2 Councilwoman Juanita Gowdy on November 7, 2023. Gowdy had dually served as council’s president and had been raising questions about the CCLRC’s legislative requests after one of its officials offered a council employee a bribe to place its legislation on the agenda.  Austin appeared to be the CCLRC-backed replacement candidate.  He…

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Indictment shows Mayor Brandon King hid the Al Zubair brothers $10 million foreign investor swindle from city council and the public

CLEVELAND, OH – To understand why East Cleveland Mayor Brandon Lee King turned his back on the law enforcement duties of his elected office, to involve himself in the $10 million con game two born and raised in East Cleveland half  brothers were running on Chinese and Saudi investors, his family history, personal associations and state-of-mind are important.  King has testified to living for the past 23 years with family members who court and other records show have sold drugs, compelled prostitution and engaged in felony voting fraud. Two of the King’s in Brandon’s household at 1735 Elsinore Street, his…

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Quinlan’s running an OPOTA training records laundering operation out of the Attorney General’s office, and hiding uncertified cops from Ohio’s mayors, judges, prosecutors

CLEVELAND, OH — At precisely midnight on January 1, 2024, something extraordinarily criminal happened across the State of Ohio. One thousand and eighty-one police officers — men and women from 38 law enforcement agencies entrusted with the power to arrest, search, and…

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Mayor Justin Bibb and his partner, Bradford Davy, have come up with a power-grabbing way to heist Cleveland’s $511 million “Rescue Act” money

CLEVELAND, OH – Mayor Justin Bibb and his over-priced team of curve-graded diverse and inclusive administrators don’t understand the limits of the duties of the elected and appointed public offices they were administered oaths of office to discharge.  Bibb and the buddy he…

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Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City…

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Bibb and Griffin must read and publicly demonstrate mastery of the American Rescue Plan Act before council votes to let the inexperienced mayor spend a dime of Cleveland’s $511 million

CLEVELAND, OH – It was wise of Cleveland city council members to reject outgoing Mayor Frank Jackson and Council President Kevin Kelley’s plans to spend American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funds.  The last thing on Jackson and Kelley’s minds with around…

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HUD’s Inspector General must investigate the effects of the conspiracy between CMHA director Jeffrey Patterson and board member Robert Davis to obstruct East Cleveland’s appointment

CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Robert Davis should have left the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) board in 2011 after I appointed him twice to serve as East Cleveland, Ohio’s representative in 2006 and again in either 2007 or 2008.  Instead he told…

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Brandon King has debate opponent who humiliated him arrested, jailed and instructs cops not to let him make bond on his word only that he was “assaulted”

CLEVELAND, OH – Richmond Heights resident Brandon King lost a mayoral debate miserably to a first time candidate with a lengthy criminal record who simply outclassed and outknowledged him with every response.  “Name-dropping” King was humiliated in front of an audience of…

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Melinda Gates had to deal with a Microsoft engineer being busted at their Seattle mansion for kiddie porn and Bill’s friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

CLEVELAND, OH – Microsoft co-founder and chief executive officer William Henry Gates, III thinks his wealth gives him the ability to solve the world’s problems.  Now that soon-to-be ex-wife Melinda Ann French-Gates has filed for a divorce the world is learning the…

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Ex-US Attorney Herdman needed mortgage fraud felon Darryl Moore’s $2.8 million in restitution; so the USDOJ said nothing while he stole it from East Cleveland in no bid HUD demolition contracts with King’s help

CLEVELAND, OH – When Richmond Heights resident Brandon King usurped the office of East Cleveland mayor as a non-resident of the city on January 1, 2018, his friend, Darryl Moore, had only made $3400 in restitution payments to the United States government…

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Brandon King vetoes East Cleveland’s appropriation law before he got it from council in the most crazed, self-dealing veto this writer as an ex-mayor has ever seen

CLEVELAND, OH – Richmond Heights resident Brandon King’s continued illegal presence in the office of East Cleveland mayor has created yet another problem for the city.  King doesn’t know it, but Michael Smedley and Belinda Kyle told friends when he was campaigning…

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Smedley’s “caught on tape” story is that Cleveland Heights ex-Mayor Cheryl Stephens was the hookup to “Mike Riley” and the illegal Noble Road death-spewing dump

CLEVELAND, OH – The late Gerald Strothers told me he believed Cuyahoga county council member and child of Carribbean immigrants Cheryl  Stephens was the reason 5-stories of deadly construction and demolition debris death existed in East Cleveland on Noble Road.  The regularly-burning…

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When Gary Norton pleaded guilty to the USDOJ; he agreed to tell everything about his and everyone else’s felony crimes out of East Cleveland city hall and a whole lot more

CLEVELAND, OH – Sing, Gary Norton, sing.  Hit the “high” notes to so they reach the ears of your “big boy” friends.  Sing it loud.   James Rokakis. Gus Frangos.  Cheryl Stephens. Michael Cardilli.  Brandon King.  Thomas Wheeler.  Darrell Moore.  Michael Smedley.   Y’all…

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The 4 East Cleveland mayors the Plain Dealer endorsed, and then used reporters to conceal their crimes in office, explains why the politicians in Cuyahoga County are corrupt

CLEVELAND, OH – A look at the Plain Dealer’s endorsements of East Cleveland’s last four mayors reveals a truth the newspaper’s publishers and editors do their worst to conceal.  They encourage voters to elect incompetents and criminals to elected office.  The lower…

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