Timothy Austin

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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Mayor Sandra Morgan’s finance director, Lynn Ann Gries, is spending public funds without a 2026 council approved budget and exposing her personal wealth to civil liability

Mayor Sandra Morgan's "smart" finance director decided she wanted to work out of the mayor's secretary's office instead of in the finance department with finance workers. So, now, Morgan doesn't have a secretary or a finance director smart enough to prepare a 2026 appropriations ordinance for council to pass.

CLEVELAND, OH – Only in East Cleveland does a city government operate without a budget and officials who don’t know they’re creating a constitutional crisis by doing so. It is 2:00 a.m. on Euclid Avenue.  A police patrol car powered by fuel purchased with a “void” Voyager fuel contract and being driven by a police officer receiving wages that have not been appropriated by city council since January 1, 2026, pulls over a motorist.  East Cleveland’s mayor, council and judge are operating without a 2026 appropriations ordinance. Because the officer’s paycheck, the fuel in the public safety vehicle, and the…

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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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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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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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