Timothy Austin

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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Mayor Lateek Shabazz files quo warranto claim to remove usurping ex-interim Mayor Sandra Morgan from city hall

For the second time since he was appointed to East Cleveland City Council in 2023, Mayor Lateek R. Shabazz is dealing with a usurper claiming a right to his office. For nearly a year Mark McClain claimed he was Brandon King's "legally recognized" councilman and received Shabazz's wages. Now Sandra Morgan is stealing his wages and claiming to be East Cleveland's mayor after he was sworn into the job from the council presidency by Councilor Dr. Patricia Blochowiak.

CLEVELAND, OH – It is not difficult to see how former interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan misread Cuyahoga County Probate Court Judge Anthony Russo’s instructions on how long she could remain in office during convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King’s suspension.  In a June 1, 2025 response to now Mayor Lateek Shabazz’s Facebook announcement that he’d been administered the oath of office to assume the job King was removed from on his way to prison, Morgan posted, “You are NOT the mayor!  The Supreme Court will decide who holds the seat until the election.” The “until the election” response from…

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Ernest Smith’s testimony was a crime confession Brandon King asked him not to share

CLEVELAND, OH – Ernest Lamont Smith, 49, doesn’t know how much of a loser he portrayed himself as when he told jurors in his criminal trial that he made his $4500 a year council salary his full-time source of income for four years.  That’s $86.53 a week plus an open invitation to join Mayor Brandon King and Michael Smedley at the “all you can steal” buffet. Smith didn’t have a job when King appointed him along with Ricky Pitts, illegally, to serve on the city council in 2017.   To protect his investment in his illegal appointees, the racketeering-minded mayor threatened…

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State investigating East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King and Phyllis Mosley’s violation of civil service laws in hiring and promoting police

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – According to indicted Mayor Brandon King’s personal attorney, Willa Mae Hemmons, acting chief of police Kenneth Lundy was hired on June 5, 2016 by recalled ex-Mayor Gary Norton without civil service testing as a BPO.  While there is no such job classification as a BPO, East Cleveland city council codified a non-classified Beat Patrol Commissioned Officer (BPCO) position in July 1998 that gave mayors the authority to hire them for six months to work on special police assignments. They earn no more than a 3rd grade patrol officer and must officially be “reappointed” by the mayor…

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Gowdy encourages Americans stopped, arrested and pursued by uncertified East Cleveland cops to use council’s “impersonation” ordinance to file criminal charges against them with Judge Dawson

Attorney Heather McCollough held herself out as East Cleveland's assistant director of law when former Ward 2 Councilor and President Juanita Gowdy introduced legislation demanding that peace officer credentials be given to defendants and Judge William Dawson.

CLEVELAND, OH – People who are detained, pursued, ticketed or arrested by individuals discharging police duties in East Cleveland should be using Ordinance Number 525.03 Council Vice President Juanita Gowdy, Councilman Nathaniel Martin and Council President Korean Stevenson enacted to validate their credentials.   State laws instruct police that if their appointing authority hasn’t ensured they’ve received state approved retraining, annually, by December 15th; they are to “cease discharging the duties of a law enforcement officer and wearing a weapon” on December 31st. The ordinance is captioned the Tamia Chapmann Act and amends the city’s “impersonation of a law enforcement officer”…

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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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Gowdy encourages Americans stopped, arrested and pursued by uncertified East Cleveland cops to use council’s “impersonation” ordinance to file criminal charges against them with Judge Dawson

CLEVELAND, OH – People who are detained, pursued, ticketed or arrested by individuals discharging police duties in East Cleveland should be using Ordinance Number 525.03 Council Vice President Juanita Gowdy, Councilman Nathaniel Martin and Council President Korean Stevenson enacted to validate their…

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Brandon King vetoes East Cleveland’s appropriation law before he got it from council in the most crazed, self-dealing veto this writer as an ex-mayor has ever seen

CLEVELAND, OH – Richmond Heights resident Brandon King’s continued illegal presence in the office of East Cleveland mayor has created yet another problem for the city.  King doesn’t know it, but Michael Smedley and Belinda Kyle told friends when he was campaigning…

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