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Posted on 07/28/2008 10:07:48 AM PDT by EBH
Cleveland) - Multiple search warrants are being executed across Cuyahoga County today by the FBI and the IRS.
Cleveland Special Agent In Charge Frank Figliuzzi tells Newsradio WTAM 1100 it's part of a long-running public corruption investigation.
Figliuzzi says the affidavit supporting the search warrant are sealed, so he cannot go into further details.
Figliuzzi did say that it is a broad-ranging investigation looking at the highest levels of Cuyahoga County government.
County Administrator Jim McCafferty confirms that the office of County Commissioner Jimmy DiMora was among those searched. DiMora's home was also searched, as was the home of Auditor Frank Russo.
Also raided was the home of Kevin Kelley, an employee of Russo's.
The third and fourth floors of the Cuyahoga County Administration Building were sealed off. Agents also blocked off the fourth floor of the County Data Center located at 1255 Euclid Avenue and have seized boxes of material.
The DAS Construction Company located at 9500 Midwest in Garfield Heights was also raided Monday morning. Agents reportedly shut down networks and checking systems at the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office.
19 Action News is reprting that a second construction company is reportedly being raided at Blaze Construction located at 151 Lou Groza Drive in Berea, OH.
Once the search warrants are done being executed, the investigation will move into the prosecution phase. Figliuzzi says that's when more details will be made public.
Figliuzzi would not say how many search warrants were issued, only that there are "many locations" in Cuyahoga County.
In a statement released by County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, he says, "Jimmy Dimora is my friend and colleague, and I fervently hope and pray that when all is said and done, this is a mere tempest in a teapot."
Stay tuned to Newsradio WTAM 1100 for further details as they become available.
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17013097/detail.html
Channel 5 News
Thanks for the funny article. The last sentence is hilarious!
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.
Dimora also is chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.
The U-Haul may have just been for the contents of his refrigerator
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.
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
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.
I should watch live news already...?
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BWAAA! It just keeps gettin’ better and better! Gotta turn on Triv and listen.
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.
And Republicans are the party of corruption?
I wonder when they’re going to get around to cleaning up Chicago.
have you guys ever thought about closing down ohio? I mean what is there of significance ?
Thanks LVD. Must be all unaffiliated with major political parties. ;’)
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