[piytar]

Yeah, shocking. /SARC

Cuyahoga aka Cleveland is dirty. Old school Chicago connected.

Then there’s Youngstown - owned by old school NY “people.”

This isn’t news to anyone with the least awareness in Ohio. Then (clueless) people wonder why Ohio is becoming such a mess.

The real shocker is that anything is happening about it. After all, Obama is from Chicago. Just another sign of The Won’s incompetence IMHO. (See also the Blago mess.)

PS Gee, wonder who Columbus Mayor Coleman - who has been rejected when he tried to go national - is connected to? Free Kupie Doll to this first person who gets that one right.

PPS This isn’t insider info - it’s common knowledge and standard bar talk in Columbus.

[CutePuppy]

Speaking of Blago, he looks like a piker compared to this. Blago is an opportunist, this is more like "organized" crime syndicate.

And, Wednesday's indictments strongly implied, there might be more shocking revelations to come.

The tentacles of corruption could reach to Martin Sweeney, president of Cleveland City Council, and taint the campaign of Lakewood Mayor Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic candidate for county executive of the Cuyahoga County government system that will be instituted after the November elections. .....

Unlike the recent influence-peddling case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Cuyahoga County case bears more resemblance to that of the notorious William Magear "Boss" Tweed, convicted in 1873 in New York's Tammany Hall corruption case, Entin said.

The Cuyahoga case also resembles two judicial-corruption cases in 20th-century Chicago politics, Entin said. .....

[hinckley buzzard]

This arrest is the culmination of a two year long thorough investigation by the FBI. They have rolled dozens of lower level vermin and the County Auditor's office, a total rats' nest, has been cleaned out. When the FBI first exercised a search warrant on these guys' homes they carried away literally truckloads of documents and other material. They have taken their time but the string of guilty pleas leading up to this point indicates they built an ironclad case.