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Prosecutors today also replayed wiretaps related to the infamous Las Vegas trip made by Dimora,
Russo and others in April 2008.
Kelley will likely be on the witness stand for several days.
In his initial testimony on Monday, Kelley said that he had initially reached out to Dimora and Russo because of their powerful political influence.
The charges against Dimora are found in a 36-count, 148-page federal indictment, alleging that he used his county commissioner’s office as the base to run a criminal enterprise.
Gabor is accused of bribery and conspiracy, including a charge that he tried to pay a judge $10,000 to fix his divorce case.
Both have denied the allegations.
Dimora’s wife, Lori, is in court today. She has not been there for several days, during which prosecutors presented testimony about affairs and prostitutes.

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But “this play just kind of sat on the back burner,” according to Calhoun, until Joel Hammer of Dobama prodded him to submit a play to GymRep. Anyone familiar with Cleveland East Tech High School will know The Mighty Scarabs as the basketball team that brought hope to a poor community by winning two straight Class AA state championships in 1958 and 1959. They went on to be state champions again in 1972.
Calhoun himself played for the renowned team at one time.
“When my mother told my father I made the team, he didn’t believe it,” Calhoun notes. Calhoun chose to set “The Mighty Scarabs” in 1965, twenty years after a fictional Scarabs’ win in 1945. The sixties, besides being a period Calhoun knew well, was one in which the culture of drugs, of “playing the numbers,” of prostitution, were still active, to bring the win into sharp contrast.

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On Monday, Kelley, provided a guided tour to the sordid underbelly of county politics, tracing his fall from a law-abiding, happily married father of six children to a world where bribery, kickbacks, prostitutes and under-handed schemes were commonplace. He has cooperated with the FBI and federal prosecutors since the day after he was first questioned on July 28, 2008, and admitted secretly recording suspects on at least 20 occasions.
Kelley spoke proudly of his popularity as president of the Parma School Board, which he intended to use as a springboard for a campaign for mayor.
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Under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Bacon, Kelley recalled a decade in which he worked in different county jobs at the same time he was partying with Dimora, Russo and the rest of the A Team. He reported seeing Dimora buying gambling chips with a inches-thick wad of cash at casinos, drinking Crown Royal, and fraternizing with prostitutes.

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… Akron)- Former Cuyahoga County engineer’s office employee and Parma school board member Kevin Kelley took the witness stand Monday in the corruption trial for former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora.
Prosecutors say Kelley arranged gambling trips and for women to be with Dimora at a condo in The Flats.
As he took the stand, Kelley described how devastating it was on July 28, 2008, when the FBI picked him up. He says he was embarrassed and scared…and almost immediately began to cooperate with them. Kelley says he lost most of his friends and had to tell his wife and older kids about his dealings with prostitutes.
Kelley was also asked about the many illnesses he claims to suffer from. Kelley takes 21 pills a day, but says it does not affect his memory or ability to testify.

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Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial: Witness says Dimora paid for prostitute for him
Published: Monday, January 30, 2012, 2:45 PM     Updated: Monday, January 30, 2012, 3:47 PM
Marvin Fong, The Plain DealerJimmy Dimora, right, and his attorney William Whitaker arrive for another day of testimony in Dimora’s federal racketeering trial.
AKRON, Ohio — J. Kevin Kelley,  a former associate of Jimmy Dimora who testified earlier that he had spent at least $20,000 on meals alone for the former Cuyahoga County commissioner, described for a federal jury today the one occasion when Jimmy Dimora spent money on him.
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He said the night started at one of Dimora’s regular pool parties in the back yard of his Independence home. Kelley said they discussed arranging for a prostitute to meet with them. When Kelley said he didn’t have the money to get a prostitute, Dimora offered to pay for both of them.

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He is charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder for the three killings because the Ohio Revised Code allows the filing of one charge for each way the crime is committed.
Beasley will be eligible for a death sentence if found guilty of any of those specifications, which Bevan Walsh said the prosecution would pursue.
“This case we view as to be one of the worst of the worst when it comes to horrible murder cases,” said Bevan Walsh, “and that would certainly be a reason for this to be pursued as a death-penalty case.”
She said Summit County prosecutors and the attorney general’s office will jointly prosecute Beasley’s case in Akron.
Beasley has been held at Summit County Jail under unrelated drug prostitution charges and Bevan Walsh said those cases will proceed as scheduled.

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Testimony in Jimmy Dimora trial turns to more mundane matters
Published: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 5:50 AM
Evening update of Jimmy Dimora’s trial for Friday, Jan. 27 Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell updates you on what happened during the afternoon session of the county corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in Akron. Watch video
AKRON, Ohio — Over the last few weeks, testimony in the racketeering trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora could not have been more riveting, with daily revelations about extramarital trysts, clandestine payments, gambling junkets and prostitutes.
But testimony Friday turned to more-mundane topics — campaign contributions, a parking garage, a toilet — as prosecutors tied up loose ends and hinted at criminal schemes they intended to introduce in the coming weeks.

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For the second time in a year, an undercover police operation at a Brimfield hotel has resulted in the arrest of an alleged prostitute who solicited men for sex online.
Brimfield police on Thursday arrested Hannah Brown, 19, with a last known address in Painesville, and charged her with crimes including solicitation and possession of criminal tools, both misdemeanors.
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Calling prostitution a “quality of life” crime that won’t be tolerated in Brimfield, Oliver said officers will pursue criminals “relentlessly, day and night” if they operate in the township.
Wednesday was the second time in a year Brimfield police used an undercover officer to bust an alleged prostitute for operating in a township hotel.
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She was arrested April 4, 2011, and charged with one count each of prostitution and soliciting and three counts of possession of criminal tools, all misdemeanors, following her arrest at a hotel at S.R. 43 and Interstate 76.

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Messer Construction Co. of Cincinnati says it’s trying to learn more about what happened.  And roads around the casino have been closed by police.
Last month, a 60 by 60 section of a garage at the Cleveland casino collapsed, also during a concrete pour. OSHA spokesman Scott Allen says the investigation into the Cleveland collapse is ongoing, and OSHA will not comment until it’s complete.  That could take up to six months.  No one was injured in the collapse at Cleveland’s Horseshoe casino.
Summit County prosecutors have postponed an unrelated prostitution case against the Criagslist killings suspect.  Richard Beasley, a 52-year-old self-styled chaplain from Akron, has pleaded not guilty to prostitution and, separately, to aggravated murder in the Craigslist slayings of three men and the wounding of a fourth.  Police say a halfway house run by Beasley was a front for prostitution.

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AKRON, Ohio —
Prosecutors in Ohio have postponed an unrelated prostitution case against a suspect in the shooting deaths of three men who were lured to a rural area by bogus job ads on Craigslist.
The postponement was announced Thursday as 52-year-old Richard Beasley appeared in court in Akron on the prostitution charges.
Beasley, a self-styled chaplain from Akron, has pleaded not guilty to prostitution and, separately, to aggravated murder in the Craigslist slayings of three men and the wounding of a fourth.
According to the Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/xXK0kV), Beasley covered his face in court and said he was concerned about biased jurors. Judge Tammy O’Brien said she was confident an impartial jury would be selected.
Police say a halfway house run by Beasley was a front for prostitution.

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