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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- News of a night time raid by the federal agencies of the IRS, FBI and HUD at the offices of City Hall on Wednesday in downtown Cleveland on Lakeside Avenue has spread throughout political and other circles.
"This likely means trouble for some people at City Hall," a Black elected official told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com on condition of anonymity
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, reported that Cleveland FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson also confirmed in an emailed statement that agents from the three federal agencies were at City Hall "after business hours for authorized law enforcement activity."
Federal agents seized file documents, including relative to Burton Scot Contractors, a based paving company out of Geuga County, and Pioneering Engineering, a company owned by city employee Khalil Ewais.
Ewais, 42, is an engineer who works out of the city's capital projects office who has not been charged but is allegedly under investigation for having a possible unlawful interest in a business contract, a felony if charged.
Also at issue is the multi-million dollar Opportunity Corridor project, and a host of other city and county funded projects..
The news of the now infamous raid hit the streets as all too familiar
Federal authorities, led led by the FBI and the IRS, raided the offices of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, former county auditor Frank Russo and two former common pleas judges in 2008 as part of an ongoing county public corruption probe.
And CMHA was raided too back then, its former executive chief, George Phillips-Oliver, ultimately sentenced to 10 months in prison for lying to federal agents.
The two judges at issue, both Democrats, and one Black and the other White, served prison time, one for 14 months for lying to the FBI, the other for some five years and three month for mortgage fraud and other federal convictions.
Also a former chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, Dimora is serving a 28-year prison sentence for racketeering and other corruption-related crimes in office and Russo, a 22-year sentence, the aforementioned of whom are among some 61 Democratic affiliates, mainly businessmen, who either took plea deals or were convicted of corruption-related crimes relative to the probe.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.