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NOTE: THE BELOW STORY ON PIMP JUDGE HARRY JACOB FOLLOWED A PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER STORY THAT BROKE AND ALLEGED THAT JACOB HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING AN OUTRIGHT PIMP, AND DURING THE TIME THAT HE WAS A SITTING JUDGE

Asked by Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leading digital Black newspaper, why Jacob is still put out as a judge though he has been suspended for pimping women and other alleged crimes, court personnel directed questions to Clerk of Court Tom Day, also allegedly involved in criminal activity, data show, but still on the job doing in Blacks and others too.

Jacob has pleaded not guilty to all charges and hired prominent Cleveland lawyer Kevin Spellacy to represent him.

The other judge on the Bedford Municipal Court, Brian Melling, is still hanging around too, doing in Blacks and others also, an investigation reveals, and as a White man, like Day, that is accused of thinking that he too, like Jacob, is above the law.

Melling and Day have harassed Blacks that come before the Bedford court, data show,  denying some of them counsel though deeming them indigent, and unless they go along with the program. Sources say that both have been caught bragging that they have the support of area Black leaders and politicians and the Cleveland NAACP, more specifically Cleveland criminal defense attorneys Michael Nelson Sr. and James Hardiman, relative to their anti-Black and anti-Democratic malfeasance. Nelson, say sources, says that he will do whatever it takes to keep monies coming into his law firm, even if he has to sell out the Cleveland NAACP and harass and defame Black women that come to him for help around the public corruption.

Jacob, 57,  did the same thing, data also show, but to a more heightened level.

A recent raid by law enforcement authorities at the former judge's house where he lives  in Solon, Ohio brought more incriminating evidence, data show, and monies allegedly stashed in vents and throughout the Jacob family home.

The city of Bedford has a population of some 13,000 people, and is roughly 44 percent Black.

The Bedford court handles cases from 14 different diverse locations including Bedford itself, neighboring Bedford Heights, and Chagrin Falls, Bentleyville, Chagrin Township, Cleveland Metro Parks, Glen Willow, Highland Hills, Moreland Hills, North Randall, Oakwood Village, Orange, Solon and Warrensville Heights. They are all among the 59 municipalities, villages and townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest of 88 counties, and of which is roughly 29 percent Black.

Jacob, say his foes, is so flagrantly disrespectful of the law that anything that goes on in the Bedford Municipal Court, particularly where Blacks are concerned, is suspect, and wreaks of a prejudicial and hostile judicial environment detrimental to the community and to the administration of justice.

Whether the federal government will intervene and take over the Bedford court where Blacks are disproportionately prosecuted, given the malfeasance and clear danger to the Black community and others, remains to be seen.