CLEVELAND (TDB) -- The search warrant that shut down Cuyahoga County's administration building while federal agents scooped up records for a political corruption investigation also touches upon Ohio's largest Democratic organization. There's a paragraph in the document that seeks access to the party's financial records:
"For the Cuyahoga County Democratic party or any campaign account for James "Jimmy" Dimora, the following:
"Records of all accounts and transactions at financial institutions, including account statements, resolutions, agreements, customer copies of certificates of deposit, check stubs or registers, canceled checks, deposit receipts and duplicate deposit tickets, withdrawal receipts and duplicate withdrawal slips, debit memos, credit memos, wire transfer records, certified check memos, official or cashier's check memos, safe deposit box keys and records, IRS forms 1099, 1098 and other tax statements."
The Plain Dealer has the complete search warrant available on the newspaper's web site, and it shows just what a fine tooth comb the Cleveland Dem chief is facing from the feds. Dimora is a Cuyahoga County Commissioner who also runs the county Democratic Party. He has long been described as a pol of the Mayor Daley (the first mayor Daley of Chicago) school.
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ReplyDeleteAlaska Senator Ted Stevens has just been indicted on seven counts of federal corruption.
Stevens is 84 and the longest-serving Republican Senator in history. Each of the seven counts is for failing to report income from renovations to his home in Alaska and receiving gifts. Making matters worse (or at least if you're a Republican), Stevens is up for re-election and faces a strong challenge from Anchorage mayor Mark Begich.
Stevens is best known as a powerful appropriator (he served as chairman during the most recent period of Republican control of the Senate), wearing Incredible Hulk ties for big floor votes (hint: he's cranky!), and most hilariously, as the guy who described the Internet as a "series of tubes" in a debate over Net Neutrality.
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You have to wonder if Cleveland voters will do anything to clean up the culture of corruption they've given themselves. Nah, just continue voting for every Russo and Dimora on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteMayor Daley (both past and present) is spelled without an "i."
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