YOUNGSTOWN, OH — Convicted federal felon Michael Leon Smedley is currently incarcerated in the Mahoning County Justice Center awaiting his May 5,…
CLEVELAND, OH – East Cleveland is a city that has been dying by a thousand paper cuts, most of them self-inflicted, many…
CLEVELAND, OH – In addition to my career as an investigative journalist, I am a former mayor, a United States Air Force…
CLEVELAND, OH – Convicted ex-Mayor Brandon Lee King and his former now convicted ex-chief of staff, Michael Leon Smedley, were involved in…
CLEVELAND, OHIO – Inside the closed doors of East Cleveland City Hall, there should be a frantic search underway for a “legal…
CLEVELAND, OH – For $400 an hour or $3200 a day and a law degree, attorney George Shoup, III is expected to…
CLEVELAND, OH – Only in East Cleveland does a city government operate without a budget and officials who don’t know they’re creating…
CLEVELAND, OH – Starting with Cedar Road in Beachwood or in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and in the hushed corridors of the Jewish…
CLEVELAND, OH — In the courtrooms of Ohio, a foundational and basic assumption is being dismantled, piece by fraudulent piece. Every day,…
CLEVELAND, OH — At precisely midnight on January 1, 2024, something extraordinarily criminal happened across the State of Ohio. One thousand and…
CLEVELAND, OH – In 2021, while the world was focused on a pandemic, convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon Lee King and his…
CLEVELAND, OH — Local followers of the federal criminal trial of convicted ex-East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King’s chief of staff, Michael Leon…
CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan didn’t know how to terminate Kenneth Lundy as East Cleveland’s “acting” chief of police and didn’t understand…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ward 13 and new Ward 4 Councilman Kris Harsh has taken it upon himself to impersonate a housing inspector,…
CLEVELAND, OH – A civil stalking protection order has been granted against Ward 2 Councilman Timothy Austin for the threats of violence…
CLEVELAND, OH – When East Cleveland’s Clerk of Council Stacey White filed a June 23, 2025 sexual harassment and a criminal complaint…
CLEVELAND, OH – The growing suspicion that predominantly American Negro populated East Cleveland, Ohio is intentionally being destabilized for a takeover by…
CLEVELAND, OH – In order to sell her creative lie that the office of East Cleveland’s mayor is not vacant, and that…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Sandra Morgan delivered her oath of office to East Cleveland Clerk of Council Mansell Baker on or around…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anthony Russo selected a mayor from the streets instead of East…
CLEVELAND, OH – Sandra Morgan will soon learn she should have listened when Ideastream’s Matt Richmond incredulously asked her if she was…
CLEVELAND, OH – It is not difficult to see how former interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan misread Cuyahoga County Probate Court…
CLEVELAND, OH – Legendary Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan’s granddaughter understood by the way she identified herself as “Interim Mayor Sandra Morgan” that…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ernest Lamont Smith, 49, doesn’t know how much of a loser he portrayed himself as when he told jurors…
CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough could rightfully be nicknamed “Willa Mae Hemmons, Jr.” for the way she criminally engages in legal…
CLEVELAND, OH – One of indicted and suspended Mayor Brandon King’s last-minute alibis fell apart when his municipal court employee co-conspirator, Deborah…
CLEVELAND, OH – The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (CCLRC) quit-claimed a free home addressed at 12600 Speedway Overlook to East Cleveland…
CLEVELAND, OH – The dockets for the state and federal criminal trials of indicted and suspended East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King, recalled…
CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Heather McCollough exposed an unconstitutional tactic she has been using to protect rights-violating East Cleveland police and prosecutors…
CLEVELAND, OH – Interim East Cleveland Mayor Sandra Morgan has enforced one of the two resolutions city council enacted on January 26,…
CLEVELAND, OH – The personal relationships and endorsements of top of the ticket national and Ohio Republicans are creating problems for Republican…
CLEVELAND, OH – White Americans missed the condescending message Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy’s father said he had for them during the Hindu alien’s…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – It is obvious in reading the 69-page federal indictment of Michael Smedley, 56, Zubair Mehmet Abdur Razzaq Al…
CLEVELAND, OH – While it’s a duty of the director of finance of a municipal corporation to report to the legislative authority…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – According to indicted Mayor Brandon King’s personal attorney, Willa Mae Hemmons, acting chief of police Kenneth Lundy was…
CLEVELAND, OH – Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Hollie Gallagher issued a November 26, 2024 nunc pro tunc order correcting…
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Indicted East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King cried indigent to be assigned his court appointed counsel, Charles Tyler, Sr.,…
CLEVELAND, OH – When Vice President Kamaladevi “Kamala” Harris’ Indian and Jamaican alien parents entered the United States of America (U.S.) in…
CLEVELAND, OH – If Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne doesn’t end the contract with the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel…
CLEVELAND, OH – Ahmed Abdullah El-Kwafi Abonamah was required to have taken six hours of initial fiscal education courses from the Ohio…

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH – Six U.S. citizens dying while in custody under elected County Executive Armond Budish and appointed Sheriff Clifford Pinkney brought an October 30 visit to the jail by FBI agents under U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman’s direction who want to know why. EJBNEWS learned from a man being held while awaiting trial that he and other people locked up were interviewed by FBI agents about jail conditions. The man said federal agents also interviewed county corrections officers. According to the detained man, a U.S. citizen, FBI agents witnessed the overcrowding in the 2000 person facility and had to…

AKRON, OH – Civil rights-violating Akron cop Natalie Tassone has made Patrick King a poster child for why Issue 1 should pass if word about his arrest gets around the state. Tassone is asking Akron prosecutors to support her claim that the 3 grams of marijuana she found on him justified him being tazed, beaten down and arrested. Tassone was administered an oath of office on February 8, 2012 to perform the duties of a police officer found in R.C. 737.11. She swore to obey and enforce all federal, state and local criminal laws. The Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed…

CLEVELAND, OH – Rev. Jesse Jackson couldn’t believe his eyes when he walked into the newsrooms of the Plain Dealer and Columbus Dispatch this past June. He didn’t see a single black journalist in the Plain Dealer’s newsroom and saw only one at the Columbus Dispatch. Both newspapers operate in the two Ohio counties with the most black residents. Plain Dealer editor George Rodrigue met with Jackson and cleveland.com editor Chris Quinn. Columbus Dispatch editor Alan Miller told Jackson he couldn’t find any black journalists. Jackson left Ohio and shared what he’d discovered with writers at a National Association of…

AKRON, OH – The statement from Akron police regarding their armed violent attack on U.S. veteran Patrick King reads like a crime confession in preparation for a federal investigation and indictments of cops for conspiring to violate his civil rights under the “color of law.” Akron Mayor Daniel Horrigan would do well to study the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of Cleveland’s police department and see why calls for a federal investigation of the corrupt police department he oversees are justified and long overdue. If Chief of Police Ken Ball evaluates the acts committed by the cops who beat King…

BEACHWOOD, OH – Russian American Beverly Goldstein completely missed how the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) defines “literacy” when she and her Russian American husband, attorney Michael Goldstein, claimed 66 percent of Cleveland’s adults are “illiterate” and “can’t read.” Had either Goldstein read how “literacy” is measured by the federal government she’s seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress to write, amend, repeal and vote on legislation both would have known their comments were “illiterate.” U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge chose not to respond to Goldstein’s disrespectful comments because she knows the USDOE measures three types of literacy in adults between…

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Police always have a reason to justify using force on unarmed citizens that in their “protect a fellow officer” mindset makes sense. Coral Springs police are supposed to be investigating evidence to learn if a cop who took two swings at an unarmed and restrained 14-year-old girl’s liver was justified in his use of force. The “rumor control” statement they uploaded to Twitter before the investigation is over supports the use of force by a male cop while ignoring a smaller female cop’s decision not to use it. The statement foreshadows what is expected to…

Detroit police chief James Craig has launched a criminal investigation of how two funeral home operators in the city were storing instead of disposing of dead fetuses. 63 were found at the Perry Funeral Home on Trumbull Road. Another 11 were found stored in a ceiling at the Cantrell Funeral Home on Mack Avenue. Nether funeral home operator has been charged with improperly storing and disposing of human remains. Craig in an October 19th news conference said the discovery has triggered interest in a task force that involves state and federal police and prosecutors. He said the U.S. Department of…

By ERIC JONATHAN BREWER CLEVELAND, OH – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s investigation of sexually-deviant Catholic priests who abused his state’s residents were transferred to parishes in Johnstown and Altoona from dioceses in Ohio. Dan Tierney of Ohio Attorney General Richard Michael DeWine’s office confirmed to EJBNEWS that his boss has been contacted by prosecutors working for Shapiro. Tierney said Pennsylvania prosecutors are investigating how priests who should have been criminally-charged for known sex offenses in Ohio escaped prosecution so they could be reassigned to prey on the residents of Shapiro’s state and others. Across the nation state attorney generals…

CLEVELAND, OH – The man in the yellow t-shirt is lifelong Cleveland and Ward 7 resident Robert Tinsley. His Facebook Live video shows him voicing his concerns about youth violence only to have the microphone taken from him by councilman and South Euclid resident Basheer Jones. https://www.facebook.com/robert.tinsley.1044/videos/444658382724590/ Jones didn’t want to hear what Tinsley had to say at a corner lot where he claimed he was operating his ward office out of a tent to hear resident concerns and draw attention to youth violence. When Tinsley started talking to Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Chontel Brown, the two-day temporary resident…

By ERIC JONATHAN BREWER CLEVELAND, OH – A 33-page HUD Office of Inspector General (HUD OIG) audit of how Rainbow Terrace’s Connecticut owners have spent federal money to manage the nearly all-black low-income housing estate shows them unable to prove expenses while overcharging the federal government for management fees. The total amount of money misappropriated by the management company is $2.3 million and HUD wants it back. The HUD OIG audit was released from the Chicago, Illinois regional office on September 28, 2018. Russian American Vesta CEO Arthur N.K. Greenblatt responded through attorney Michael Price, but the response didn’t alter the…

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland cop who exposed CPPA president Jeffrey Follmer’s criminal conspiracy to obstruct the investigation of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams’ 137 bullet slaughter in East Cleveland is now being charged by his “union brothers” after a surprise drug test was positive for cocaine. Patrol officer James Hummel is not facing “discipline” pursuant to the CPPA’s labor agreement with the city that expired in 2016. A criminal complaint was filed against him by internal affairs cop Roger Stoudmire for violating one of the city’s 1st degree misdemeanor ordinances. Hummel picked up the police-driven criminal charge after he…

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…

In the city where council never uses its congressional-like power to hold hearings and learn if employees the mayor supervises are obeying ordinances, or if the ordinances need tweaking, a backlog of building and housing permits may be caught up “without overtime” if Mayor Frank Jackson’s chief development official follows-up. Jackson’s chief of regional development, Ed Rybka, met with building and housing workers on Tuesday and told them to catch up on getting backlogged permits to contractors and property owners. There’s more than a 4-month backlog of unfilled permit requests that has pissed off smaller contractors and property owners who’ve…

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…

CLEVELAND, OH – FBI special agent in charge of the Northern District of Ohio, Stephen Anthony, was quick to praise the agency’s “law enforcement partners” when he busted “controlled” terrorist Demetrius Pitts. Not a word was said to Mayor Frank Jackson as the city of Cleveland’s chief law enforcement officer when FBI agents Anthony supervised learned his “law enforcement partner’s” employee, Rufus Taylor, was asking contractors to give him money for special consideration on demolition contracts. Federal agents under Anthony’s supervision decided to withhold the information from Jackson. Instead of working for Jackson and obeying the city’s ordinances and state…

Entertainer Bill Cosby being sentenced to a prison in Pennsylvania was very much a part of the national discussion as U.S. District Court Judge and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford’s rape accusation before the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee two days later. Anyone who really listened to Blasey-Ford’s U.S. Senate Judiciary testimony heard her describe the legal “elements” of Kavanaugh’s “offense” of “rape” against her as a victim under Maryland’s annotated code. Maryland’s sex crimes laws are so “Puritan” that even oral sex was codified by a past Christian-controlled legislature as an illegal “unnatural sex act” and…

There are 19,429 mayors and city managers in the USA who could overnight eliminate 90 percent of the civil rights litigation and citizen complaints of police misconduct if they were trained to manage the approximately 350,000 police officers they supervise. In a nation where the national average for training police is 600 hours – a barber and cosmetologist need 1500 hours – there is no voluntary or mandatory professional police management training for mayors and city managers. In Ohio where I served four years as East Cleveland’s mayor, and in the nation, mayors are codified as the chief law enforcement…
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Irish Catholic Cleveland city council president Kevin Kelly operates the municipal legislative body like a southern plantation owner who mastered the notorious Willie Lynch theories made widely-known by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan during the 1995 Million Man March to Washington, D.C. A close examination of Kelley’s political acts in comparison to Lynch’s theories of controlling “African slaves” who were a majority on the plantations reek of efforts to suppress the city’s majority American Negro voting base and political influence. Voter suppression is one of the reasons Cleveland activist Kareem Abdul Nafi, a local Black Lives Matter…

CLEVELAND, OH – Rev. Theodore P. Lucas was placed on administrative leave by Bishop Nelson Perez of the Catholic Diocese of Greater Cleveland because of a “credible accusation of sexual misconduct involving a minor.” The order was announced on May 16, 2018. Lucas was instructed “not to function in any capacity as a priest anywhere.” Lucas had been assigned to St. Bartholomew’s in Middleburg Heights from 1984 to 1989. He was sent to Resurrection of Our Lord in Solon between 1989 and 1997. From 1997 to 2014 Lucas was assigned to St. Mary Magdalene’s in Willowick. He was…

The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doesn’t apply to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social media site. It only applies to government. Facebook is a publicly-traded corporation and corporations don’t have to honor the 1st Amendment. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in August that he has 20,000 censors and “artificial intelligence” trolling through words and phrases in millions of Facebook posts. They’re supposed to be looking for foreign propagandists trying to influence elections in the U.S. and terrorists. But Zuckerberg’s censors and software algorithms are actually looking for thoughts to censor that have…

The “transgendered” life on television and film has morphed from comedians like Jack Benny, Flip Wilson and Tom Hanks dressing as women for jokes to the new FX show “Pose” that’s been renewed for a second season where the “trans” characters are real. The situations the characters get themselves into are so real life actress Laverne Cox commented during a Variety interview that “they telling all our business.” In FX’s words the show is set in the 1980’s and is a dance musical. It makes television history with the largest cast of transgender and LGBTQ characters “ever scripted for a…

At least twice in his career as an East Cleveland cop since so-called “chief” of police Michael Cardilli has let his Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) credentials expire. The first time was for 5 years between November 17, 1999 and August 10, 2005. The city’s late chief of police, and not the mayor, received an August 10, 2005 letter from Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro’s office telling her that Cardilli and another cop, Paula Robinson, had continued to impersonate law enforcement officers for 5 and 13 years past dates they should have “ceased performing the duties of a…

CLEVELAND, OH – The Irish, Italian, Eastern European and Hispanic Catholics of the USA have been shamed and humiliated once again with revelations in a Pennsylvania grand jury’s investigation into “hundreds” of child-molesting homosexual and straight Irish Catholic priests in the state. The priests, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Joshua Shapiro, engaged in perverse and heavy sadomasochistic sex with each other and the sons and daughters of their parishioners. The revelations in the state grand jury’s report have started a war between the church’s gay and anti-gay political factions; and a particularly detailed and highly-critical 11-page “testimony” from anti-gay…

When Lara Trump reached out to Omarosa Manigault-Newman with the offer of a $15,000 a month do-nothing campaign job in exchange for her silence about the federal felony law violations she witnessed in the White House, the ex-Trump aide believes the President of the United States’ daughter-in-law was obstructing justice. Youngstown, Ohio native Omarosa’s statements have been consistent in that she witnessed, reported and continues to report the information she has about felony violations of law by President Donald Trump, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders and other members of the White House staff. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4 it is a felony…

No malicious call to police on black people across the nation has been worse than the one made by Cleveland city councilman Basheer Jones. Jones called police on over 200 black men, women and children who’d peacefully and legally-assembled at the African American History Museum where they paid $20 to hear Dr. Umar Johnson and motivational expert George Fraser speak at a fundraiser on May 18th. The 3rd District police sergeant who showed up to shut down the event told the museum’s director, Francis Caldwell, that the councilman claimed the building was unsafe but had no evidence to support the…

EAST CLEVELAND, OH – Joseph Marche’s Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) credentials had expired when Bratenahl police found him drunk, armed and possibly drugged with bottled narcotics behind the wheel of an unmarked public safety vehicle on December 22, 2017 outside East Cleveland’s jurisdiction where he worked. The booking video Mariah Crenshaw of Chasing Justice obtained through a public records request is disgustingly eye-opening. At the moment Bratenahl police interacted with him Marche was in violation of Section 109:2-18-06(A) of Ohio’s administrative code and impersonating a peace officer. ” … any peace officer or trooper who, in any calendar year,…

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