Michael Smedley

Convicted ex-mayor King and his boy, Smedley, were in a scheme to bring polluting crypto miners from Communist China to East Cleveland

CLEVELAND, OH – In 2021, while the world was focused on a pandemic, convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon Lee King and his indicted ex-Chief of Staff, Michael Leon Smedley, were busy opening the city’s back door to more potential environmental terrorism. Under the guise of “economic development,” and guided by the now-indicted Al Zubair brothers, the former King administration courted an unidentified owner of Valarhash (V-Hash as the FBI calls the company). Valarhash was a desperate Communist Chinese cryptocurrency mining corporation, a polluter China ran out of the country that was seeking refuge in the United States. An FBI affidavit…

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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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Council clerk given protection order against East Cleveland Councilman Timothy Austin

CLEVELAND, OH – A civil stalking protection order has been granted against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin for the threats of violence and sexual harassment he has directed at Clerk of Council Stacey White before and after she filed criminal and harassment complaints against him.  The order protects White, her East Cleveland resident husband and two children until December 27, 2025.  Austin has engaged in the type of conduct that can have him removed from council. Austin must now appear before the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on July 11, 2025 at 9 a.m. for a full hearing.  Both…

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Malicious attorney Heather McCollough took council clerk’s criminal and sex abuse complaints, and the next day helped the accused councilor retaliate against her

CLEVELAND, OH – When East Cleveland’s Clerk of Council Stacey White filed a June 23, 2025 sexual harassment and a criminal complaint against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin, she officially transmitted both documents to attorney Heather McCollough.  McCollough signed the documents as received. Since McCollough was usurping East Cleveland’s prosecutor’s office, the attorney should have opened an investigation into White’s allegations if she was pretending to hold the job lawfully.  What the malicious prosecuting attorney impersonator did was conspire with Austin to retaliate against White the next day. McCollough had received pictures of ex-employee Dorian Hudson’s penis she must have…

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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

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 Shabazz says Judge Russo created chaos and no confidence in the court when he noticed the media instead of the city’s officers of his East Cleveland interim mayor’s appointment of Morgan

CLEVELAND, OH – When Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anthony Russo selected a mayor from the streets instead of East Cleveland city council to manage the city as “interim mayor” on February 28, 2025, he took no steps to notify the municipal corporation’s officers and residents.  Instead, Russo issued a news release and the city’s predominantly American Negro residents were supposed to figure it out for themselves. The Clerk of Council at the time, Mansell Baker, told this writer he never received a notice from Russo of his order so he could post it for the public and…

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