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THIS IS PART ONE OF A MULTI-PART SERIES ON CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC CORRUPTION, A COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-YEAR INVESTIGATION THAT REVEALS, AMONG OTHER IMPROPRIETIES, A CLEAR INDICTMENT AGAINST POOR PEOPLE, WOMEN, THE BLACK COMMUNITY, AND OTHERS

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-UNIVERSITY Heights- University Heights Mayor Susan Infeld (pictured), following accusations by council members of illegal spending of taxpayers money and claims of racism against Black residents, coupled with running a theft ring of Cuyahoga County residents homes via illegal foreclosures, was booted out of office Tuesday evening.

University Heights is a Cleveland suburb and is 18 percent Black.

Mayor since 2010, Infeld, also the city's corrupt safety director, lost her bid for reelection to Michael Brennan, an attorney who has never held public office.

Community activists said they were pleased that voters could see through a racist Democratic mayor such as Infeld, who is White, corrupt and and uses White cops to harass Black residents that complain about her harassment.

Activists say she should be investigated and indicted for theft and malfeasance in office and hate crimes against Black residents.

"Ousted University Heights Mayor Susan Infeld runs a theft ring of homes of Cuyahoga County residents with University Heights resident and Chief Cuyahoga County Magistrate Stephen Bucha and his wife, an attorney with the law firm of Lerner Sampson and Rothfuss who represent corrupt banks and mortgage companies such as JPMorgan Chase Bank and Wells Fargo," said greater Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a greater Cleveland Black journalist who leads the grassroots group Imperial Women Coalition "Also involved are the law firm of Bricker and Eckler where former county prosecutor Bill Mason is now a partner, corrupt common pleas judges like judges John O'Donnell and Carolyn Friedland, county officials, the county sheriff's office, police in University Heights, led by the corrupt and racist Lt. Dale Orians, and a host of others."

Current county Prosecutor Michael O'Malley is also part of the corruption, Coleman said, and has Blacks maliciously prosecuted for University Heights, Mason, Bricker and Eckler, Lerner Sampson and Rothfuss, Thompson Hine law firms, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, among others, if they fight to save their homes against illegal foreclosures.

Data also show that in general, O'Malley is getting Blacks erroneously indicted in droves and is a king of mass incarceration of the Black community.

At one time Infeld employed as the city law director, the former attorney of former county commissioner and former county Democratic party chairman Jimmy Dimora.

Dimora is serving a 28-year federal prison sentence for racketeering and other crimes in office.

Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo, who is serving a 22-year prison sentence for malfeasance in office, are among some 61 Democratic affiliates, including two common pleas judges, but mainly businessmen, who were either convicted or pleaded guilty to crimes via an ongoing county corruption probe led by the FBI.

Coleman said that the FBI should investigate Infeld, University Hts police, Chief County Foreclosure Magistrate Stephen Bucha and his wife, corrupt county officials and the county prosecutor's office, and a select group of corrupt municipal and common pleas judges for documented public corruption, including racist Shaker Heights Judge KJ Montgomery, who hears criminal cases brought by the city of University Hts.

Data show that Montgomery is also a part of the theft ring of homes and has Blacks maliciously prosecuted that complain. She also illegally employs attorneys that come before her to step in for her for judge to try to get Blacks illegally convicted of crimes, research reveals, and she issues extremely excessive bonds against the Black community.

Judge Montgomery, say sources, is sometimes allegedly drunk on the bench, and for a period, would not come to work.

Judges in general, and other elected officials, including he Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts, and corrupt cops in a host of other Cuyahoga County communities are also part of the public corruption, a multi-year investigation by the Call and Post Newspaper and Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog, reveals.

The culprits, for the most part, are White Democrats who reside in Cuyahoga County, data show, some of the same ones who routinely court the Black vote.

A few Republicans, including judges, and anti-Black mainstream media-types, regardless of political party affiliation, are also at fought in perpetuating political corruption, racism, sexism, police misconduct and legal system abuse against the Black community, women, other minorities, poor people, and children and their families, among others.

Cuyahoga County, the state's second largest county behind Franklin County, which includes the capital city of Columbus, is roughly 29 percent Black, and a Democratic stronghold.

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Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard), Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed (wearing eye glasses and no beard), East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King (wearing red tie), newly elected Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones (wearing gold tie), newly elected Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones (wearing goatee) and newly elected Ward 14 Councilwoman Jasmin Santana

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson beat longtime Councilman Zack Reed in a non-partisan runoff election Tuesday evening, the three-term Black mayor winning an unprecedented fourth term to continue his reign over the largely Black major American city, and  three sitting members of the 17-member Cleveland City Council lost.

The mayor and all of city council, nine White and eight of them Black, are all Democrats, though Tuesday's election brought on a Latino, making city council next year situated with eight Whites, eight Blacks, and one Latino.

Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt lost to former councilman Joe Jones, Ward 7 Councilman T.J. Dow lost to Basheer Jones, and Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins lost to Jasmin Santana, a Democrat and the only Latinio in the races for Cleveland City Council.

All three of the city council races at issue were close, Pruitt and Dow both losing by less than one percent, and Cummins taking a loss by about two percent.

Pruitt lost by eight votes and Dow lost by 13 votes, a recount of which is in progress for all three, Dow, Pruitt and Cummins, and expected to be concluded by Nov 28.

On-leave former Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson Sr won against Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael Sliwinski in the closely watched Cleveland judicial race, a three-way race that also included Marlene Ridenour.

Jackson ally, City Council President Kevin Kelley, also won reelection with ease and will likely be chosen by his city council colleagues to continue on as council president, sources said yesterday

Jackson won with 60 percent of the vote to Reed's 40 percent, according to unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Reed came in second to Jackson in a primary election that drew nine total candidates, Jackson finishing the primary with 39 percent of the vote to Reed's 22 percent.

In East Cleveland, Mayor Brandon King, a Democrat who, by virtue of the city charter, stepped up to the position last year after voters recalled then mayor Gary Norton, easily defeated activist and Green Party candidate Devin Branch.  And East Cleveland Councilman Ernest Smith retained his seat.

The races for mayor in Cleveland and East Cleveland and for city council in Cleveland were among several races in Cuyahoga County, including suburban races for judge, council and mayor.

Longtime Beachwood Mayor Merle Gorden lost to Martin Horwitz in a heated election, and University Heights Mayor Susan Infeld, mayor since 2010, was  defeated by Michael Brennan, an attorney who has never held public office.

Voter turnout was low in both Cleveland and East Cleveland and elsewhere, with only 30 percent of registered voters in  Cuyahoga County, which is roughly 29 percent Black, casting ballots.

But Tuesday's figure is greater than the voter turnout of a dismal 12.95 percent for the Sept 12 primary.

Both Cleveland and East Cleveland are Democratic strongholds in the heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County, the second largest of 88 counties statewide, behind Franklin County, which includes the capital city of Columbus, Ohio's largest city, which is followed by Cleveland.

Jackson and Reed outdid mayoral candidate Councilman Jeff Johnson in the primary, who came in third and then announced his support of Reed, support that could not bring Reed over the hump to oust the popular Jackson, a former city council president endorsed by the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, the majority of city council and a host of others.

Reed won the endorsement of the Cleveland Police Patromen's Association while Jackson garnered the endorsement from the fire fighters union

For judge-ships in Cleveland, in addition to Michael Nelson, who ousted Judge Sliwinski, judges Joe Zone, Pinkey Carr and Michelle Denise Earley ran unopposed, Judge Jimmy Jackson, a Republican, lost to Ann Clare Oakar, Republican Judge Janet Rath Colaluca lost to closet challenger Jazmin Torres -Lugo, and Sheila Turner McCall won an open seat over Lynn McLaughlin-Murray and Craig Willis.

Cleveland Housing Court Judge Ronald O'Leary, a Republican, held off Democrat W. Mona Scott to keep his judicial seat.

In closely watched judicial races in suburban Cleveland James Costello will replace retiring Cleveland Heights Municipal Court Judge A. Deane Buchanan, South Euclid Judge Gale Williams -Byers retained her seat, and controversial Lyndhurst Municipal Court Judge Mary Kaye Bozza lost her judicial seat to Dominic Coletta.

In the races for 17 seats on the largely White Cleveland City Council in which Blacks currently lead in the largely Black wards 1,2,4,5,6,7,9 and 10 there were no surprises other than losses by councilpersons Pruitt to Joe Jones, Dow to Basheer Jones, and Cummins to Jasmin Santana.

In Ward 2, the council seat held by outgoing Councilman Reed,  who chose to run for mayor and not reelection to city council, went to Kevin Bishop, who outdid Geoff Fitch.

Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston, a member of the 11-member Cuyahoga County Council, beat Eugene Miller, a former state representative and former city councilman who lost his council seat to Jeff Johnson in 2010 when city council was reduced from 19 seats to 17 via redistricting.

Ten people sought the Ward 10 council seat in the primary election, the city council race with the most crowded field of candidates in the primary.

Other Cleveland City Council winners were Ward 3 Councilman Kerry McCormack, Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson, who won in a close election over Gail Sparks, Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin, Ward 8 Councilman Michael Polensek, Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, Ward 11 Councilwoman Dona Brady, Ward 12 Councilman Anthony Brancatelli, Ward 15 Councilman Matt Zone, Ward 16 Councilman Brian Kazy, and Ward 17 Councilman Martin Keane.

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Controversial on-leave president of the Cleveland NAACP Michael Nelson Sr., who took the leave of absence from the local Civil Rights organization to run for a seat on the 13 member largely Black Cleveland Municipal Court, has been accused of rape as the Nov 7 general election nears and Nelson is a heated race with Judge Michael Sliwinsaki, a White Republican appointed by Gov Kasich to the seat to fill a vacancy on the court.

Also in the race is Marlene Ridenour, an East Cleveland assistant city prosecutor.

The alleged rape victim lives on the largely White west side of Cleveland and reportedly had been romantically involved with the single Nelson, allegedly posting naked pictures of Nelson that have since been taken down by Facebook, sources said.

The 46-year-old woman says in the police report that Nelson raped her on Oct 15.

Nelson has denied the rape allegation and said the woman is a scorned woman targeting him also for political reasons.

No charges have been filed to date, though police say the allegation is under investigation, police that have feuded with Nelson relative to his role as Cleveland NAACP president, Nelson, a criminal defense attorney, even suing Cleveland police and the city on behalf of the Cleveland NAACP in an excessive force case he was addressing.

Ridenour and Nelson, 68,  are both Black, and all three were among panelists at a forum this year for Cleveland mayor led by Black community activists that was moderated by activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and edits Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

"News of the allegation of rape of the on leave former Cleveland NAACP president a week before a close race for a seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court has rocked Black and White Cleveland area political circles, and it has national implications relative to his role with the NAACP," said Coleman, who leads the Cleveland based grasssroots group Imperial Women Coalition."Rape is a very serious matter no matter what the stature is of the accused."

A Nov 3 story by Cleveland.com, the online affiliate of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, details the rape allegations in rare form, and both news venues have endorsed Sliwinski in the slug -fest race for the judicial seat with Nelson endorsed by the Cuyahoha County Democratic Party and several members of Cleveland City Council, among others.

Nelson also led a failed venture to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who faces Councilman Zack Reed in a non-partisian mayoral run-off election Nov 7, both Jackson and Reed of whom are Black.

The rape allegation has cast a shadow over Nelson's  bid for judge, and puts the Cleveland NAACP, which Nelson led prior to the damning rape allegation, at risk as to it reputation for Civil Rights.

Attorney James Hardiman, also a criminal defense attorney, and Nelson's sidekick, now leads the Cleveland branch NAACP, and stepped up from first vice president when Nelson, president of the organization since an election in 2015, decided to seek a municipal level judgeship.

The woman said Nelson had her come over following an argument and that he raped her and shrugged his shoulders as he put his pants back on, and Nelson says she is a scorned lover.

A divorce,' Nelson has rekindled a relationship with his ex-wife, a key component of his campaign and who helped him spearhead a successful NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner this year, the first in several years. She is also embroiled in the controversy.

Nelson and Sliwinski have both campaigned heavily in the closely watched judicial race.

Cleveland is roughly 60 percent Black and has a population of some 385,000 people.

Nelson is also endorsed by famed Glenville High School football coach Ted Ginn Sr., who held a campaign fundraiser for Nelson at the downtown Cleveland dinner bar that he co-owns with RTA board member George Dixon dubbed G-Lancer on the 21, a takeoff of the now defunct but still legendary Lancer's Steak House restaurant and bar that Dixon owned and operated.

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Pictured is Eugene Miller, a former Cleveland councilman and former state representative, and a candidate for city council in Ward 10 for the Nov 7 general election

ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, endorse former councilman and former state representative Eugene Miller for Cleveland City Council in Ward 10 relative to the Nov 7 general election, Miller facing Cuyahoga County Councilman Anthony Hairston. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF VOTE EUGENE MILLER FOR CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL IN WARD 10

A cadre of community activists also support Miller, including Ward 10 activist Donna Walker Brown, and Alfred Porter Jr, the president of the grassroots group Black on black Crime Inc who also resides in Ward 10, a predominantly Black east side ward that includes South Collinwood, Glenville Euclid Park, St Clair-Superior and Nottingham Village neighborhoods.

A Democrat like Hairston, Miller served in the state legislature representing the 10th district from 2007-2009 and was a member of city council from 2009 until Councilman Jeff Johnson unseated him in 2013, both forced to run against each other after city council was reduced from 19 members to 17, a heated election with Cleveland Mayor Fank Jackson backing Miller and Johnson securing the backing of councilmen Kevin Conwell and Michael Polensek, and state Rep Bill Patmon (D-10).

When Johnson decided to for mayor this year instead of seking reelection to city council Miller, then a quality control specialist for the Department of Public Works for the city,  decided to make another run for the Ward 10 seat, and he came in second to Hairston in the Sept 12 primary election that drew a crowded field of 10 candidates.

He is protege of the late congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio's first Black female congresswoman who succeeded former congresswoman Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressperson.

Tubbs Jones died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm shortly after Hillary Clinton, whom she supported as her national campaign chairperson, lost the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 to  Barack Obama, America's first black president who served two terms and left office in January. (Editor's note: Tubbs Jones was succeeded by current 11 congressional district congress woman Marcia L. Fudge, a former Warrensville Heights mayor and former chief of staff to Tubbs Jones).

One Ward 10 resident said Miller is her choice for city council.

"I want to go on record as endorsing Eugene Miller," said Gloria Grady, a 35-year Cleveland resident. "He is honest, reliable and willing to work the long hours needed for the position."

His campaign chairwoman, Patrice White, said Miller "will fight to increase the quality of lfe for Ward 10 residents."

And Miller himself told ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com that he is " committed to serving the constiuents of Ward 10."

Both Miller and Hairston are Black men, but Miller, 43, is the best choice for the 17-member largely Black city council.

A self-made Black man who dropped out of high school at 16, fathered a daughter at 18, whom he raised as a single father, and then went on to earn a bachelor's degree and an MBA, Miller and his two younger brothers were raised by a single mother, and all three have college degrees, and master's degrees.

He now has two daughters, both of whom have finished college.

He said Sunday at a rally as to the 8th-year anniversary of the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell that if he wins in November he will hold committee meetings and hearings as to the epidemic of rape and murders of women and girls, Black and poor women and girls in particular.

His reputation in responding to the rape and murders of women in his ward when he was a councilman is a good one, according to the family of 18-year-old murder victim Sheirellda Terry, a victim of East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison.

Hairston, 31, is  a status quo politician, who voted with other members of the 11-member largely White Cuyahoga County Council to endorse the Quicken Loans Arena deal that provides millions of dollars for renovations to the stadium that houses the talented Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, whom we also support, a mega team led by NBA megastar LeBron James, Ohio's native son.

But the Q-Deal has become a priority over inner city predominantly Black neighborhoods in the largely Black major American city of Cleveland that are struggling to survive.

While we love the city of Cleveland we also know that disenfranchised residents, particularly Blacks and poor people, have been routinely overlooked for big business and the establishment in general.

And Hairston has been silent as to the ongoing theft of homes of Cuyahoga County residents via illegal foreclosures for big banks and mortgage companies like the corrupt JPMorgan Chase Bank, theft supported by common pleas judges and a sheriff's office that illegal deflates the value of foreclosed homes for sheriff sales, all to accommodate the elite.

Calls to Hairston for help as to the foreclosure dilemma have gone unanswered, and Cuyahoga County Council, a different governmental venue from Cleveland City Counil, now wants to charge Cuyahoga County residents 10 cents for plastic grocery bags at stores, a ridiculous proposal offered by County Councilwoman Sunny Simon that is expected to be voted upon later this year.

Enough is enough.

Miller does not have a reputation of ignoring constituents' concerns. He is best suited to lead Ward 10, which, like other east side neighborhoods, struggles with poverty, abandoned homes, gun violence, and debilitating streets, among other traditional inner city problems.

Ward 10 voters should elect Miller on Nov 7.

ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.