Sandra Morgan

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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Opinion: Morgan and Shoup will screw themselves by attempting a retroactivity cure for their illegal spending

Mayor Sandra Morgan is in her second year of spending public funds without a budget.

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Inside the closed doors of East Cleveland City Hall, there should be a frantic search underway for a “legal time machine.” Mayor Sandra Morgan and $400‑an‑hour Receiver, George Shoup III, should be huddled in a “straight panic” meeting. The topic? How to erase 57 days of illegal spending. They should be looking for a legal way to pass a “retroactive” budget that serves as a legislative eraser to wipe away the fact that since January 1, 2026, every city check or contract signed by unbonded and uncertified Director of Finance Lynn Ann Gries has been a violation…

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The state’s $400 an hour East Cleveland receiver, George Shoup, is in contempt of court order he’s paid to enforce

CLEVELAND, OH – For $400 an hour or $3200 a day and a law degree, attorney George Shoup, III is expected to know how to read and obey the court order giving him the equivalent of an $800,000 a year salary.  He’s the so-called “savior of East Cleveland” appointed by Court of Claims Judge Lisa Sadler at the request of Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber.  Shoup earns over four times more than, and has one tenth of one percent of the responsibility of, Ohio Governor Richard Michael Dewine who’s paid $176,000. I underscore his $400 an hour wage because…

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Altered police training records open the floodgates for legal chaos, reversed convictions and massive lawsuits across Ohio against the State

CLEVELAND, OH — In the courtrooms of Ohio, a foundational and basic assumption is being dismantled, piece by fraudulent piece. Every day, men and women wearing law enforcement uniforms and carrying weapons take the stand, swear to the tell the truth, and then testify against American citizens they’ve stopped, detained, arrested and filed criminal charges against. Judges sign their warrants.  Prosecutors rely on their sworn affidavits.  Citizens lose liberty and lives based only on their word. Thousands of American and Ohio citizens have died because they’ve been shot, beaten or chased to death by a law enforcer.  Thousands more are…

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Morgan campaigning with dirty OPOTA-violating ex-police chief Shabazz fired, and who received $106,000 in stolen funds from fired ex-finance director, is bad news for East Cleveland’s voters

CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan didn’t know how to terminate Kenneth Lundy as East Cleveland’s “acting” chief of police and didn’t understand why he should be terminated.  He has a way with women and Morgan was beguiled by the skinny-jeans-wearing younger man.  She had publicly praised a cop Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz knew to be a dirty $200,000 a year payroll thief. Morgan’s professional background and unregistered work for the British government had not given her knowledge of complex municipal, civil service and collective bargaining laws found in three different chapters of the Ohio Revised Code, and embedded in East…

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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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