Marisa Darden

Facing 100 years in prison, Al Zubair brothers sabotaged their own defense with secret recordings and ChatGPT

CLEVELAND, OH — Local followers of the federal criminal trial of convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King’s chief of staff, Michael Leon Smedley, have been wondering why it’s taken more than 70 days after his February 20, 2025 superseding indictment to be heard.  His trial with the Al Zubair brothers was originally scheduled for April 14, 2025.  The answer for the delay is found in a docket that details the stall tactics being used by his sibling co-defendants. The two Cleveland brothers, Zubair Mehmet Abdur Razzaq Al Zubair and Muzzammil Muhammad Al Zubair, are each staring at a maximum prison…

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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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Shontel Brown supports arming Ukrainian Nazi militias who want to “ethnically cleanse” Ukraine of Russians who live next door to Russia in a nation that was once Russian-owned

CLEVELAND, OHIO – The feature image I’ve shared is of the Azov Battalion in Ukraine who the Democrat serving the 11th Congressional District in Congress, United States Representative Shontel Brown, supports arming to fight the Russian Federation.  The image of the Nazi swastika speaks for itself in America to Americans who are loyal to and love our nation. Someone must have told Brown that “the Russian invasion of the Ukraine threatens the balance of power in the region” as her justification for agreeing that “neo-Nazi” Ukrainian militias should be armed with our tax dollars.  The more than $2 billion in…

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Shontel Brown supports arming Ukrainian Nazi militias who want to “ethnically cleanse” Ukraine of Russians who live next door to Russia in a nation that was once Russian-owned

CLEVELAND, OHIO – The feature image I’ve shared is of the Azov Battalion in Ukraine who the Democrat serving the 11th Congressional District in Congress, United States Representative Shontel Brown, supports arming to fight the Russian Federation.  The image of the Nazi…

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