Detective says cops didn’t tell prosecutor politician may have crossed state lines with teen strippers for school fundraiser

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – EJBNEWS learned from East Cleveland police detective Scott Gardner that the cops who took statements from witnesses and exotic dancers at Council Vice President Ernest Smith’s stripfest fundraiser left out how the underaged girls traveled across state lines from Michigan to Ohio; and who transported them. When EJBNEWS learned of the September 10 event from a city source – while police were taking statements from the women – it was shared the nearly-nude performers didn’t know Smith was an elected official. Smith’s street name to the women he’d hired to dance for him was “Dolla Bill.” …