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Four Toledo City Council members, all Democrats, arrested by FBI on bribery charges
The Blaze ^ | 06/30/2020 | Carlos Garcia

Posted on 07/01/2020 3:56:11 PM PDT by DFG

Four members of the Toledo City Council, all Democrats, were arrested and charged in a bribery scheme by federal law enforcement authorities on Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Larry Sykes, and Garrick Johnson, were involved in a scheme that extorted money from business owners in the Ohio city in exchange for favorable council votes. The FBI began its investigation into the council members in early 2018.

Each of the accused members could face up to 10 years in prison for the bribery charges, and up to 20 years on the extortion charges.

Also charged in the scheme was an attorney who is accused of helping orchestrate the crimes.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bribery; democrat; riley; toledo
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Holy Toledo!!
1 posted on 07/01/2020 3:56:11 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Don’t tell me. I know without looking at details.


2 posted on 07/01/2020 3:57:59 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: DFG

Maxwell C. Klinger weeps.


3 posted on 07/01/2020 3:58:08 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: nesnah

wait till they get to Minneapolis and Seattle.


4 posted on 07/01/2020 4:00:30 PM PDT by ofcrob2237
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To: DFG

The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect liars and thieves to public office so that they can loot the public treasuries.


5 posted on 07/01/2020 4:03:17 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Salvey

Well, 3 out of 4 are of the POC persuasion, if that’s what you meant.


6 posted on 07/01/2020 4:04:08 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: DFG

“Four Toledo City Council members, all Democrats, arrested by FBI on bribery charges”

I thought you had to be accepting bribes to run for political office as a Democrat.


7 posted on 07/01/2020 4:09:28 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: DFG

Well we're movin on up, to the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up to the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

Actually, they’ll be moving to probably a Club Fed Spa.

8 posted on 07/01/2020 4:10:27 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: DFG

My dream is these new Toledo Dems are added to the many UAW leaders indicted-—
- March, 2020 stories....Federal prosecutors accused Gary Jones, the former head of the 400,000-member union, of conspiring with other senior UAW officials to embezzle more than $1 million and covering up the alleged misconduct with fake receipts and fraudulent expense reports....////

and they end up in prison and one says:”Hey, isn’t that old dude walking past us that famous guy. That, what’s his name guy?”
Other con: “Mueller. The one who set up Trump. He’s right behind Schiff and Nadler. Going to the dining hall to join Comey in there. Boy how the mighty have fallen. At least we’re in prison with celebs. Could be worse.”


9 posted on 07/01/2020 4:12:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: DFG

Democrats getting arrested? Someone hold my pearls.


10 posted on 07/01/2020 4:15:33 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DFG

All very well dressed. City council usually doesn’t pay that well, and you know, they deserve more.


11 posted on 07/01/2020 4:21:44 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: DFG

Events like this and the bust of the voter fraudsters in New Jersey make me think that a lot more is going on behind the scenes than we patriots realize.

I know AG Barr doesn’t get a lot of love on these threads, but I have remained quietly neutral.

Certainly, the corruption runs so wide and deep that any draining of the swamp will be a herculean task.

But Hercules did manage to clean out the Augean stables.

Don’t give in to defeatism, FRiends.


12 posted on 07/01/2020 4:34:15 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: DFG

2 years to get 4 people ??? Gonna take the FIB’s hundreds of years to get the little leftist pukes causing all the chaos and damage.


13 posted on 07/01/2020 4:41:36 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: Nothingburger

Thanks for encouragement!


14 posted on 07/01/2020 4:44:29 PM PDT by avenir
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To: Migraine
3 out of 4 are of the POC persuasion, if that’s what you meant.

Actually, it's 4/4. see the photo halfway down.

https://toledocitypaper.com/feature/landlords-slow-to-comply-with-lead-paint-ordinance/

15 posted on 07/01/2020 4:44:58 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Migraine

Oops. Instead see:
https://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2017/10/01/Economic-growth-at-front-of-Johnson-s-plans.html


16 posted on 07/01/2020 4:48:21 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

The first guy just looks tanned.


17 posted on 07/01/2020 4:49:32 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: csvset

Left man looks more oriental to me. Though maybe halvsies.


18 posted on 07/01/2020 4:51:12 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: MortMan

See the link in #15. He’s likely mixed, but one drop and all that. He’s served on multiple inclusion and diversity boards, the article states.


19 posted on 07/01/2020 4:51:35 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: MortMan

Sorry, the link in #16. Making a lot of mistakes today.


20 posted on 07/01/2020 4:52:32 PM PDT by bkopto
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