Michael Smedley

Convicted ex-chief of staff Michael Smedley’s got a long prison journey ahead of him

YOUNGSTOWN, OH — Convicted federal felon Michael Leon Smedley is currently incarcerated in the Mahoning County Justice Center awaiting his May 5, 2026, sentencing before U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent. The man who once threatened to hit East Cleveland’s then 70-year-old former Clerk of Council in the head, now wears an orange jumpsuit in a mug shot. Their encounter came after the Clerk of Council told a resident not to pay the illegal automatic traffic camera citations convicted ex-Mayor Brandon King violated a council resolution to keep issuing. Smedley’s white beard is unkempt. His eyes, in the mug…

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There is no “Circle East” as the Land Bank sells an Al Zubair brothers-like scheme 5 years after its contract expired

CLEVELAND, OH – Convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King and his former now convicted ex-chief of staff, Michael Leon Smedley, were involved in a scheme with two brothers to convince foreign investors to give them $10 million.  According to testimony during the federal trial that resulted in Smedley being jailed while he waits the long sentence he’s expected to receive, he, King and fired ex-law director Willa Mae Hemmons led investors to believe the brothers actually owned General Electric’s former Nela Park lighting division headquarters property. It’s similar to the scheme the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) employees used to…

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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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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…

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Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City…

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Brandon King has debate opponent who humiliated him arrested, jailed and instructs cops not to let him make bond on his word only that he was “assaulted”

CLEVELAND, OH – Richmond Heights resident Brandon King lost a mayoral debate miserably to a first time candidate with a lengthy criminal record who simply outclassed and outknowledged him with every response.  “Name-dropping” King was humiliated in front of an audience of…

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When Gary Norton pleaded guilty to the USDOJ; he agreed to tell everything about his and everyone else’s felony crimes out of East Cleveland city hall and a whole lot more

CLEVELAND, OH – Sing, Gary Norton, sing.  Hit the “high” notes to so they reach the ears of your “big boy” friends.  Sing it loud.   James Rokakis. Gus Frangos.  Cheryl Stephens. Michael Cardilli.  Brandon King.  Thomas Wheeler.  Darrell Moore.  Michael Smedley.   Y’all…

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