Vanessa Veal

Recalled ex-East Cleveland mayor and wife dissolve marriage

This 44112 News photo shows former "First Couple" Gary and Shalom Norton while they were living well off East Cleveland and Cleveland taxpayers.

Cleveland school teacher Shalom Norton’s marriage to recalled ex-East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton was dissolved by Domestic Relations Judge Tonya Jones on September 18, 2018.  The two have entered a child support agreement.    Judge Jones, wife of Cleveland councilman Joe Jones, lifted the protection order one of the former marriage partners sought against the other.  There’s no record of a domestic violence complaint on file with Cleveland or East Cleveland’s municipal courts.  Shalom confronted another woman at the county administration when Norton was an aide to ex-commissioner Peter Lawson Jones as he was accused of being involved in an…

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Contract forging East Cleveland chief’s secretary held by feds

CLEVELAND, OH – Federal agents who appear to have spent the past four years investigating how dollars earmarked to demolish homes in poor census tracts have been corrupted by local government officials, landfill owners and demolition contractors escorted East Cleveland police chief Michael Cardilli’s secretary from her home in Euclid, Ohio on October 3rd. Sources confirm that Veal was escorted by agents around 9 a.m. and released approximately two hours later. Vanessa Veal was suspended by Mayor Brandon King on September 26th after he learned she forged community development director Melran Leach’s signature on a demolition contract intended for a…

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