BREAKING NEWS - FEDS ARREST EAST CLEVELAND MAYOR

[mabelkitty]

BREAKING NEWS Feds arrest East Cleveland Mayor Federal agents this morning arrested East Cleveland Mayor Emmanuel Onunwor on a 22-count indictment for accepting "bribes, kickbacks and secret payoffs" over his career as a city official. A federal grand jury has been investigating Onunwor and other city officials since last year. In January, the grand jury indicted the city's former community development director on charges of channeling federal money to her relatives through "front companies" and accepting kickbacks in return. The U.S. attorney's office said Onunwor solicited and received numerous bribes from unspecified "intermediaries" that span his career as East Cleveland City Council president, community development director and mayor. Onunwor is to appear in court this afternoon.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

No, it's the *west* side that is bad in most US cities, East St. Louis and Cincinnati being the principal exceptions.

[madison10]

Hmmm, must depend on the city. Now that you mention it...I believe it was the South Side of Chicago known for the mob/Mafia activity. Most cities near me, large & small, it's the East side.

[Clemenza]

(Upper) East Side in New York is the wealthiest neighborhood in the nation. (Lower) East Side was once bad, but now yuppified.

[mabelkitty]

Awesome post!
I would suggest you take picture and post them, but after thinking about it, that wouldn't be such a good idea. Does his involvment spread to Jeffrey Johnson? I'd like to see them connect him to Jane Campbell. Here's hoping.

[lurker214]

LOL..i'll tell you what. The price of water here is so much higher than the rest of the area that many have said that he must have been skimming something for himself. Its unreal

[lurker214]

Heh yeah pics would be a really bad idea seeing how i live extremely close to the guy. I wouldnt want my house showing up and get traced. (Im proud of my flowers though so maybe..) Ditto on Campbell as well since my parents live on the same street as her. I dont think at least im not sure he's connected to them. Johnson though from what ive read over the years has alot of his own problems. Bribes wasnt it?

[O Neill]

No, it's the *west* side that is bad in most US cities, East St. Louis and Cincinnati being the principal exceptions.

Frumda East side,
Toda West side...
We
Luv
L.A.

[Ann Archy]

No party affiliation mentioned...hmmmm....that means he's a DEMOCRAT!!

[Fresh Wind]

Think the Philly mayor is nervous?

Not likely. As his honor, Mayor Street proudly proclaimed "The brothers and sisters are running the city". He's not worried about any feds messing up his empire.

[DollyCali]

East Cleveland .. (you do NOT want to drive thru there at night.. and should be VERY careful during day)

murders & drugs & violence profound.

The state educational testing puts East Cleveland regularly in bottom 5%.

Median resident age: 33.9 years
Median household income: $20,542 (year 2000)
Median house value: $67,700 (year 2000)

Races in East Cleveland:

Black (93.4%)
White Non-Hispanic (4.5%)
Two or more races (1.4%)
American Indian (0.9%)
Hispanic (0.8%)

I once led a bike ride from our area near Akron to downtown Cleveland thru this are to the university circle area. There were 5 cops in the group. All of them were afraid. I felt pretty good with 5 cops however :)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

LOL! Yes, I'm learning that. It can always be worse!

[The Mayor]

I wish these feds would come to Buffalo and Erie county..

Just come to new york..

[GOPJ]

night bump

[aruanan]

Doesn't the "east side" of Anywhere, USA have a bad reputation? Detroit, Chicago, Toledo, St. Louis, Cleveland. You name it, the "east side" is where to find trouble.

Except that there's no east side of Chicago because of Lake Michigan.

[Humidston]

>>No republicans anywhere within 30 miles.<<

Then he'll be reelected, LOL!

[E Rocc]

Does his involvment spread to Jeffrey Johnson?

I had a class with Jeff in college. He's actually a pretty good guy, or at least was then. Anyone who can enrage George Forbes enough to make him throw a chair can't be all bad....LOL. I was actually sorry to see what happened to him, but I guess kickbacks are pervasive among the Dems.

-Eric

[E Rocc]

If by that you mean poor then yeah i think most of it can be described that way. The mayor however lives in a small enclave of E cleveland called forest hills close to another suburb of cleveland and has a substantially higher level of income and education and also different demographics. Lots of professionals especially blacks almost all of which have no children cause the public schools are one of the worst in the state. If you have kids you live elsewhere.

Doesn't Calamity Jane actually live in the Shaker Heights School District?

-Eric

[GeronL]

Why do the Feds ignore Chicago??? I guess it takes years to go through all THAT graft.

[madison10]

LOL. It was the South Side of Chicago with the reputation. Generalizations don't work.

[proudpapa]

You beat me to it. Daley is as crooked as they come.