Federal agents take Toledo city council members into custody amid bribery probe. Holy Toledo!
The FBI has arrested multiple Toledo city council members accused of taking cash in exchange for votes during what is described in court records as a years-long, sweeping bribery scandal involving some of the city’s highest elected officials.
City council members Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Larry Sykes, and Gary Johnson are all charged in federal court with accepting bribe payments for official acts and extortion, according to criminal complaints filed Tuesday. Keith Mitchell, an attorney who is accused of funneling bribes to Ms. Harper, also faces bribery and extortion charges. Ms. Harper is charged as well with interstate communications with intent to extort.
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Only a third of them? Wonder if the other eight are sweating yet?
Ho hum, just another group of Democrat politicians enriching themselves at the cost of the city they're pretending to run. They probably learned their trade up the road in Detroit and then emigrated to Toledo to fleece another city full of uneducated Democrat voters. They're like locusts only worse.