Keith Faber

Ohio’s first municipal receiver is a $400 an hour failure who’s in contempt of court for letting East Cleveland’s mayor spend money without a 2026 budget

CLEVELAND, OH – East Cleveland is a city that has been dying by a thousand paper cuts, most of them self-inflicted, many of them illegal. Its mayors have been convicted. Its budgets have been fabricated. Its employees have been paid with money that, by the strict letter of Ohio law, was never lawfully appropriated to leave the city’s accounts. Its residents have watched their streets deteriorate, their police department shrink, their service department reduced to nothing and their government collapse into a rotating cast of uninformed state and local elected officials who treated the law as a suggestion and the…

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The state’s $400 an hour East Cleveland receiver, George Shoup, is in contempt of court order he’s paid to enforce

CLEVELAND, OH – For $400 an hour or $3200 a day and a law degree, attorney George Shoup, III is expected to know how to read and obey the court order giving him the equivalent of an $800,000 a year salary.  He’s the so-called “savior of East Cleveland” appointed by Court of Claims Judge Lisa Sadler at the request of Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber.  Shoup earns over four times more than, and has one tenth of one percent of the responsibility of, Ohio Governor Richard Michael Dewine who’s paid $176,000. I underscore his $400 an hour wage because…

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Mayor Sandra Morgan’s finance director, Lynn Ann Gries, is spending public funds without a 2026 council approved budget and exposing her personal wealth to civil liability

Mayor Sandra Morgan's "smart" finance director decided she wanted to work out of the mayor's secretary's office instead of in the finance department with finance workers. So, now, Morgan doesn't have a secretary or a finance director smart enough to prepare a 2026 appropriations ordinance for council to pass.

CLEVELAND, OH – Only in East Cleveland does a city government operate without a budget and officials who don’t know they’re creating a constitutional crisis by doing so. It is 2:00 a.m. on Euclid Avenue.  A police patrol car powered by fuel purchased with a “void” Voyager fuel contract and being driven by a police officer receiving wages that have not been appropriated by city council since January 1, 2026, pulls over a motorist.  East Cleveland’s mayor, council and judge are operating without a 2026 appropriations ordinance. Because the officer’s paycheck, the fuel in the public safety vehicle, and the…

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Altered police training records open the floodgates for legal chaos, reversed convictions and massive lawsuits across Ohio against the State

CLEVELAND, OH — In the courtrooms of Ohio, a foundational and basic assumption is being dismantled, piece by fraudulent piece. Every day, men and women wearing law enforcement uniforms and carrying weapons take the stand, swear to the tell the truth, and then testify against American citizens they’ve stopped, detained, arrested and filed criminal charges against. Judges sign their warrants.  Prosecutors rely on their sworn affidavits.  Citizens lose liberty and lives based only on their word. Thousands of American and Ohio citizens have died because they’ve been shot, beaten or chased to death by a law enforcer.  Thousands more are…

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Morgan campaigning with dirty OPOTA-violating ex-police chief Shabazz fired, and who received $106,000 in stolen funds from fired ex-finance director, is bad news for East Cleveland’s voters

CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan didn’t know how to terminate Kenneth Lundy as East Cleveland’s “acting” chief of police and didn’t understand why he should be terminated.  He has a way with women and Morgan was beguiled by the skinny-jeans-wearing younger man.  She had publicly praised a cop Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz knew to be a dirty $200,000 a year payroll thief. Morgan’s professional background and unregistered work for the British government had not given her knowledge of complex municipal, civil service and collective bargaining laws found in three different chapters of the Ohio Revised Code, and embedded in East…

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Morgan campaigning with dirty OPOTA-violating ex-police chief Shabazz fired, and who received $106,000 in stolen funds from fired ex-finance director, is bad news for East Cleveland’s voters

CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan didn’t know how to terminate Kenneth Lundy as East Cleveland’s “acting” chief of police and didn’t understand why he should be terminated.  He has a way with women and Morgan was beguiled by the skinny-jeans-wearing younger man. …

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