FBI executing search warrants in public corruption investigation

WTAM 1100 AM ^ | 07/28/2008 | By Darren Toms

[EBH]

About 200 FBI agents raided the county administration building.

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17013097/detail.html

Channel 5 News

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Thanks for the funny article. The last sentence is hilarious!

[EBH]

The FBI needed a U-Haul truck to execute the search warrant at Jimmy Dimora’s home. It took them about 45 minutes to load up what they wanted(per a WTAM broadcast reporter outside Dimora’s home).

Agents were brought in from around the country to help with this huge raid.

[flutters]

Dimora also is chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.

[hippyhater]

The U-Haul may have just been for the contents of his refrigerator

[EBH]

Dawn Kendrick is reporting that today is a huge day of embarrassment for Cuyahoga County. I loved her response to Mike Trivisonno’s question that she can’t “speculate” as to why this is happening. If this was a Republican they’d be speculating like crazy. The most she admitted was that the public could only ‘take so much’ of the news of the level of corruption.

[EBH]

You might like this one too:

A former strip club manager is paid nearly $50,000 a year to work for the Cuyahoga County commissioners and county auditor, but two commissioners don’t know her or what she does.

Rosemary Vinci, 50, is on the payroll of Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo. She splits her 35-hour work week between working for Russo and the three county commissioners, Russo’s chief operating officer said.

Two of the county commissioners, Peter Lawson Jones and Tim Hagan, said last week they have never met Vinci. The third, Jimmy Dimora, had security officers remove two Plain Dealer reporters from Thursday’s public meeting when they asked him about Vinci.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/04/county_employees_job_a_mystery.html

[road pizza]

I am just giddy over this. ‘Bout time the ignorant (or is it just plain stupid) voters of Cuyahoga Co. see what their years of loyalty has got them. I can only hope they find some kind of link to Kucinich.

[EBH]

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[Old Professer]

I should watch live news already...?

[Las Vegas Dave]

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[Las Vegas Dave]

Most, if not all, Cuyahoga County employees are RATS...!

[Las Vegas Dave]

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[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

BWAAA! It just keeps gettin’ better and better! Gotta turn on Triv and listen.

[EBH]

Thanks for pinging the list Dave. Cuyahoga County is going down big time. We've needed this shake-up for a long, long time. The mods. pulled this thread from breaking news, but I think this will go national once the prosecutors unseal the evidence. If they are afraid of the publics reaction to this, as we're being led to believe, this could be the end of the democrat stranglehold on Cuyahoga County and the 10th District.

[EBH]

I am listening. My original link is to WTAM. For those who care to go to the link...I think WTAM has streaming radio if freepers across the country want to listen. Triv is on 3-6.

[3catsanadog]

Members of the Pennsylvania state legislature have recently been indicted for numerous fraudulent activities and I believe they are all Democrats.

And Republicans are the party of corruption?

[dajeeps]

I wonder when they’re going to get around to cleaning up Chicago.

[Walkingfeather]

have you guys ever thought about closing down ohio? I mean what is there of significance ?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LVD. Must be all unaffiliated with major political parties. ;’)