Judge William Dawson

Fake East Cleveland prosecutors using “malicious prosecution waivers” to conceal their color of law conspiracies against rights

CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough exposed an unconstitutional tactic she has been using to protect rights-violating East Cleveland police and prosecutors during an attempt to “negotiate” a dismissal of the false criminal charges indicted Mayor Brandon King filed against me and council president Lateek Shabazz on November 15, 2023.  On April 4, 2025, McCollough and attorney Timothy Kucharski wanted me to sign a “malicious prosecution waiver” to obstruct my pursuit of criminal charges against them for their “color of law” violation of my constitutional rights. I was seated next to interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan when Kucharski presented…

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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…

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