Sandra Morgan

Ohio’s first municipal receiver is a $400 an hour failure who’s in contempt of court for letting East Cleveland’s mayor spend money without a 2026 budget

CLEVELAND, OH – East Cleveland is a city that has been dying by a thousand paper cuts, most of them self-inflicted, many of them illegal. Its mayors have been convicted. Its budgets have been fabricated. Its employees have been paid with money that, by the strict letter of Ohio law, was never lawfully appropriated to leave the city’s accounts. Its residents have watched their streets deteriorate, their police department shrink, their service department reduced to nothing and their government collapse into a rotating cast of uninformed state and local elected officials who treated the law as a suggestion and the…

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

Honorary British Consul and Order of British Excellency (OBE) Mayor Sandra Morgan arrives to work around 10 a.m. and hides in her office surrounded by her fiscal officer, a Jamaican national and an Eritrean refugee's daughter. No secretary. Employees aren't allowed in the mayor's "wing" like they were during the Shabazz administration.

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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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. …

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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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Sandra Morgan acts like “Brandon King in a skirt” as she uses fired city attorney Heather McCollough to answer Mayor Lateek Shabazz’s quo warranto

CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan will soon learn she should have listened when Ideastream’s Matt Richmond incredulously asked her if she was relying on an unethical criminally minded ex-city attorney named Heather McCollough for legal advice. When the granddaughter of stoplight inventor Garrett…

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