Mansell Baker

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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Attorney Heather McCollough violated indemnification laws to defend dirty cops without seeking a resolution from East Cleveland city council

Sandra Morgan, unfortunately, aligned herself with the criminal element in East Cleveland city hall instead of the reformers who've fought for their removal. Heather McCollough is seeking a Cleveland municipal court judgeship as East Cleveland's fired ex-malicious prosecutor. Instead of advising Morgan not to use her for personal legal affairs, McCollough entrapped her into a public confession on WOIO that was noted by Ideastream's Matt Richmond.

CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough could rightfully be nicknamed “Willa Mae Hemmons, Jr.” for the way she criminally engages in legal malpractice in the name of the municipal corporation of East Cleveland.  Instead of seeking a seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court, McCollough, like her “official document forging” mentor, Hemmons, should be facing criminal prosecution and an investigation by the Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio.  East Cleveland taxpayers have every right to demand that its elected officials file malpractice claims against each of the “sisters of legal chaos.” The May 22, 2025 “answer” McCollough filed with…

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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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Now a convicted felon, Gary Norton joins the Cleveland Hall of Fame of dirty ex-politicians endorsed by the Plain Dealer

Every duty Gary Norton failed to perform after his mismanagement of East Cleveland's finances caused the city to be placed in fiscal caution, fiscal watch and then fiscal emergency was documented in the state auditor's report as evidence the state attorney general can use to petition for its dissolution.

CLEVELAND, OH – The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com’s editorial board has done a horrible job of endorsing candidates for elected office.  When the newspaper’s endorsed candidates commit crimes in office or demonstrate incompetence its publishers, editors and writers just act like it didn’t happen.  Ignore their ongoing offenses until law enforcement authorities step in. Gary Alexander Norton, Jr. is the latest Plain Dealer endorsed political candidate to be convicted of crimes he didn’t get caught committing until he was out of elected office.  Norton showed up at East Cleveland city hall after voters recalled him in 2016 and offered to…

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Mike Smedley goes into hiding after EJBNEWS exposes a video of him naming Cuyahoga county council woman Cheryl Stephens as his “Mike Riley” hookup

Two brains are not better than one when it comes to the combined minds of Mayor Brandon King and his off-the-books chief of staff, Michael Smedley. Latasha Williams represents an example of their best thinking; which is why East Cleveland taxpayers have a $60 million deficit to pay.

CLEVELAND, OH – The day after Christmas 2020, Michael Smedley went into hiding and stopped showing up for work at East Cleveland city hall … again.   Gary Norton had been indicted along with Vanessa Veals on December 14, 2020.  Twelve days later, the day after acknowledging the celebrated birth of Yeshua the Christ on December 25th,  I published a November 2018 audio recording of Smedley’s conversation with Ward 2 residents on my EJBNEWS website December 26th. Smedley’s recent disappearing act is the same as the behavior that drove him into hiding when he told residents of Ward 2 in East…

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