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BREAKING NEWS - FEDS ARREST EAST CLEVELAND MAYOR
Posted on 04/22/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cleveland; eastcleveland; mayor; onunwor
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To: Solson
Gee...a Dem who takes bribes and kickbacks???? Yeah, go figure, right!
Well, that's what happens when your moral compass is yourself!
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:46:41 AM PDT
by
wingster
To: mabelkitty
Next thing you know they'll unearth some grainy black and white video of Da Mayor snortin' coke and striking deals for cash in some seedy hotel.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:46:48 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: William Creel
Steffie Tubbs-Jones's district. Rumor is, she actually lives here too.
If he did it, nobody heard about it.
He also may have been strong armed so it wouldn't embarrass Tubbs-Jones after Kerry appointed her to the DNC. They are tight.
Look for the state to take over the schools. I've been hearing rumors about that, as well.
Finally some justice for these folks. They've been hit with utility bills well over $300 when nobody else in the area ever heard of such a thing. Very poor area.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:46:54 AM PDT
by
mabelkitty
(John Kerry is the sad clown of life.)
To: Solson
"Gee...a Dem who takes bribes and kickbacks????"
Actually, he's a Republican.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:48:22 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: William Creel
Right, which means he's really a Dim at heart, but just did what it says, tried to play politics and change to the GOP.
Maybe he knew what he was doing when he did this, eh.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:48:28 AM PDT
by
wingster
To: William Creel
Mayor Emmanuel Onunwor of East Cleveland, the country's first African-born mayor, recently switched his party affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican sideTHAT, infiltration, is the problem with the Republican party today.
I wonder how many "freepers" cheered at the news a black African born Democrat switched parties...
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:49:17 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(Who made you, the casual observer, the expert?)
To: MineralMan
Actually, he's a Republican.Well, so is McCain. If anything, I think this character is a RINO.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:49:39 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: mabelkitty; rdb3
Clevetown bump.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:50:50 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: dubyaismypresident
Yet *another* corrupt Ohio politician?! Say it isn't so!
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:50:52 AM PDT
by
NYC GOP Chick
("If I could shoot like that, I would still be in the NBA" -- Bill Clinton, circa 1995)
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To: William Creel
Playing politics to stay in elected office. How unusual. We here in Texas have a problem in a lot of primaries trying to decide which former Democrat will make the best Republican candidate. This is notable in districts where only Republicans can be elected now. Seems as if a lot of politicians have no party loyalty to anyone or anything but themselves. No surprise.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:50:56 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: mabelkitty
No doubt he'll use the clinton defense.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:51:02 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.)
To: Solson
Mayor Emmanuel Onunwor of East Cleveland, the country's first African-born mayor, recently switched his party affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican side, explaining that by doing so he would be better able to help repair his blighted city. Sorry, guys, he's ours.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:51:13 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: All
Not a good day overall. If he's dirty he has to go down, but if he's a rare black Republican, then this could cost votes in a vote rich area in November.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:52:01 AM PDT
by
Owen
To: lewislynn
recently switched his party affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican sideJust like Bloomberg.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:52:04 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I don't have a solution; but I do admire the problem.)
To: William Creel
"The First Annual Black Rhino Award"
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:53:09 AM PDT
by
wolficatZ
(___><))))*>____)
To: SandyInSeattle
Well, unlike the Democrats, we shouldn't be coddling criminals in the ranks.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:53:49 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: CzarNicky
Oy!
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:54:08 AM PDT
by
Solson
(Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.)
To: mabelkitty
Did that phone call get through to Jesse Jackson before they hauled him away?
Red Phone = democrats
Blue Phone = rhino's
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:54:48 AM PDT
by
BluSky
(“Don’t make me come down there.”)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Yet *another* corrupt Ohio politician?! Say it isn't so! Sad thing is this guy switched parties to Republican not that long ago.
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posted on
04/22/2004 8:55:07 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Is Arlen a Republican? Not proven.)
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