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Steve Pumper of D-A-S Construction charged in federal corruption probe
Cleveland.com The Cleveland Plain Dealer on Line ^ | July 8, 2009 | John Caniglia

Posted on 07/08/2009 9:09:33 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town

CLEVELAND — Federal prosecutors this morning charged a Cleveland construction contractor with bribing Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora with $33,000 in cash, lawn work, Cavs and Indians tickets and hundreds of dollars in meals and drinks for county contracts.

The charges said an unnamed public official whose description matches Dimora helped Steve Pumper's company, D-A-S Construction, obtain work on county projects, including brownfield and public housing projects. The bribery charges were filed in U.S. District Court, and they allege that Pumper also used bribes to win contracts in Parma schools. They say he paid former board President J. Kevin Kelley $6,000 in cash to gain a $96,000 subcontract.

The charges also allege that Pumper begged Dimora to use his influence in his divorce, as well as a civil case that was pending before a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge whose description matches Judge Bridget McCafferty.

The charges included comments that Pumper called McCafferty and talked with her about speeding up the proceeding. He also thanked the judge, according to the charges.

McCafferty's chambers were searched by the FBI last year, weeks after agents raided the homes and offices of Pumper, Dimora, Kelley and County Auditor Frank Russo.

Dimora and McCafferty have not been charged with a crime and are not named in the charges, but public records show there is little doubt that they are the people named in the charges.

Attorneys for Dimora and McCafferty could not be reached.

Pumper resigned from D-A-S in April. Officials for D-A-S said the company has moved on and any improper conduct was contrary to the company's code of ethics.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caseofthemissingd; cleveland; corruptdems; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; dimora; urbancorruption

1 posted on 07/08/2009 9:09:34 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town
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To: Jim from C-Town
This is a continuing probe and investigation into corruption in Cleveland/Cuyahoga County
2 posted on 07/08/2009 9:10:59 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

DAS has done work for the VA here in Cleveland - though not for a while.


3 posted on 07/08/2009 9:13:54 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Jim from C-Town
Might be important in Cleveland, but I suspect it's not truly Breaking News.

Those are for headlines of national import.

4 posted on 07/08/2009 9:15:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Too sick for words!)
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To: Jim from C-Town
White's words came a day after Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, a Democrat, called for a federal investigation into what he called a vast conspiracy to sabotage the Democratic turnout in Ohio, a key swing state at one time in the 2008 presidential election.
5 posted on 07/08/2009 9:21:12 AM PDT by Foolsgold ("We live in the greatest country in the world and I am going to change it" Barry O'boomarang 2008)
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To: Lazamataz
It is national news because it shows the corruption of the Democrat machine politics from the local to the national level. This is the same organization that runs the City of Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angelas, virtually every basket case city in the country, And the entire federal government.
6 posted on 07/08/2009 9:30:24 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Perhaps. But if we put local news in the Breaking News tab, quite soon it would be overwhelmed.


7 posted on 07/08/2009 9:32:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Too sick for words!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

didn’t Steve Pumper co-star with Jenna Jamison in several feature films?


8 posted on 07/08/2009 9:32:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

No that was his brother Richard Pumper.


9 posted on 07/08/2009 9:36:19 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“It is national news because it shows the corruption of the Democrat machine politics from the local to the national level.”

bingo.

Worse yet, they’ve proven to be les incompetents as well as criminals. It’s one thing if they’re crooks but run things well, but still another if they run the place into the ground.


10 posted on 07/08/2009 9:49:56 AM PDT by TWohlford
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To: STARWISE

CLeveland -— CHicago It’s all the same.


11 posted on 07/08/2009 10:08:04 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Pumper? I never touched her!

*rimshot*

}:-)4


12 posted on 07/08/2009 10:09:15 AM PDT by Moose4 (Palin/some guy who can keep it in his pants 2012)
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To: Jim from C-Town

LMAO!


13 posted on 07/08/2009 10:27:24 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Eschew exclamatory abuse.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Is this tied in with that Federal investigation into connected corruption between the solicitation of contracts in cities including Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Houston?

That thing has gone on for years. And it simmers under the radar as a “local” story when it is a NATIONAL story.


14 posted on 07/08/2009 10:31:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Lazamataz

See my post below, I suspect that this is part of a long running ongoing prosecution of corruption that extends into a number of states (same players involved).

One of the guys from Houston was Mayor Lee P. Brown’s aide.


15 posted on 07/08/2009 10:33:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

tip meets iceberg....


16 posted on 07/08/2009 10:33:11 AM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
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To: Foolsgold

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/jimmy-dimora-frank-russo-plain-dealer.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/jimmy_dimora_and_frank_russo.html&h=330&w=470&sz=21&tbnid=c0N_njEJOGcEsM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djimmy%2Bdimora&usg=__AS2QKJJ9nfroVAE0bC6bExXNwqw=&ei=wNhUSqPWOMSFtgfD7qiuCA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=7&ct=image


17 posted on 07/08/2009 10:39:12 AM PDT by redstateconfidential (" An American Idol President")
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To: Jim from C-Town
Charged in Federal Corruption Probe

Yeah, might as well put that phrase into the MS Word autotext function for the next 4 or so years.

18 posted on 07/08/2009 11:00:14 AM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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