Michael Smedley

King and Smith’s state trial moves forward while Smedley’s fed trial is temporarily delayed

CLEVELAND, OH – The dockets for the state and federal criminal trials of indicted and suspended East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King, recalled ex-councilman Ernest Smith and his fired ex-chief of staff, Michael Smedley, give the impression the three men are preparing for plea agreements instead of a trial. There isn’t much in the way of pre-trial motions that King and Smedley have offered to challenge the United States and State of Ohio’s evidence and investigative procedures in the criminal cases against them.  Smith’s original attorney, a private attorney impersonating East Cleveland’s law director, Willa Mae Hemmons, initially filed a motion to…

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Mayor Morgan fires attorney who stole from East Cleveland taxpayers and aided Brandon King in committing crimes

CLEVELAND, OH – Interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan has enforced one of the two resolutions city council enacted on January 26, 2023, and removed Beachwood resident and ex-vendor attorney Willa Mae Hemmons from discharging any duties as the city’s director of law she’s been impersonating since the resolutions were enacted.  Hemmons’ last day was Monday, March 31, 2025. The lock to the law director’s office was ordered to be secured by Morgan two years and two months after Hemmons was officially fired by a resolution of council on January 26, 2023.  A city hall source said the office Hemmons…

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Smedley used his job with Mayor King to seek an annual $250,000 in bribes from 2 brothers conning foreign investors out of $10 million

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – It is obvious in reading the 69-page federal indictment of Michael Smedley, 56, Zubair Mehmet Abdur Razzaq Al Zubair, 41, and his brother Muzzammil Muhammad Al Zubair, 30, that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents had an intimate level of knowledge about the organized criminals.  Evidence includes numerous text messages, email, wire transfers of funds, receipts, letters, contracts, expensive Cleveland Browns loge and game tickets, Euclid police investigatory records, IRS records and what appears to be detailed conversations with cooperating witnesses. $10 million was on the table. The words in the 69-page indictment describe Smedley…

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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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King’s 5-year deficit forecast doubles to $60 million as state commission reduces East Cleveland’s spending

CLEVELAND, OH – The most incompetent mayor in Ohio did not attend the June 20, 2023 Financial Planning & Supervision Commission (FPSC) meeting to learn if the state was going to reduce East Cleveland’s 2023 appropriations to 85 percent of the 2022 budget.  The 2022 budget was $30.5 million.  Eighty-five percent is $25.9 million.  It’s equal to the amount council authorized East Cleveland Mayor Brandon L. King to spend for 2023. King’s greed got the best of him and he wanted a $36 million budget for a city that’s taking in less than $16 million in taxes.  His goal this…

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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 Hospital was constructed in 1837 after the cholera pandemic.  This story’s feature image is of the newly-constructed free Cleveland hospital 184 years ago. As Cleveland experienced more pandemics the city’s enlightened political and health care leaders pushed for and enacted laws that provided funding to increase hospital bed capacity and expand free care.  By 1937 Cleveland’s City Hospital…

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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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