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Two businesses — a yoga studio/massage parlor and dance studio — will ask the Mentor Planning Commission for conditional use permits during its meeting 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall.
Awaken Yoga Studio, School and Healing Arts Studio wants to open a yoga studio at 7312 Center St.
The 832-sq.-ft. building has previously housed a bridal shop, pet grooming facility and a needlepoint store, according to the staff report the city of Mentor prepared for the Planning Commission.
Awaken Yoga operates out of Shore Cultural Center in Euclid for now.
If the permit is approved, it hopes to host yoga classes of eight to 10 students twice a day in Mentor, according to the staff report.
The location would also offer Thai yoga massage classes and sessions.
Also at the Planning Commission meeting, Tina Caniglia and Peter Santorelli are asking for a permit to run the Gotta Dance Studio at 8824 Mentor Ave. in the Mentor Town Plaza.

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Evening update of Jimmy Dimora’s trial for Tuesday, Jan. 24 Plain Dealer reporter Stan Donaldson 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 — Jurors and the rest of Northeast Ohio need wonder no longer what federal prosecutors believe motivated Jimmy Dimora –  an insatiable appetite for sex.
For the first time Tuesday, prosecutors in Dimora’s racketeering trial offered accounts of how people trying to curry favor went to great lengths and expense to arrange extra-marital trysts for the then-Cuyahoga County commissioner.
They connected with female escort services. They dispatched limos to pick up women from as far away as Toledo. They searched for discreet spots for encounters. They dropped off condominium keys.

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Massie had testified earlier today of a scheme in which prosecutors allege that Dimora accepted favors from former county employee Kevin Payne, who had pleaded guilty to several bribery counts in 2009, but died of complications of thyroid cancer before he could testify. Those favors, prosecutors say, included arranging gambling trips and prostitutes for the commissioner.
But Payne had admitted in court documents that he lobbied Dimora to approve a nearly $4 million lease for the county engineer’s office at the Stonebridge development. Payne also said he sought the commissioner’s help with personnel matters at the county sanitary engineer’s office between 2005 and 2008.
Prosecutors and court documents have said Payne also provided Dimora and his friends access to a condominium at Stonebridge that was loaned to Payne by the development, which is owned by K&D Group. Payne also paid for prostitutes to entertain Dimora, court documents state.

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Pistone said he met Payne when they attended seminary together and that later Payne became his lawyer and the attorney for an Ohio limousine owners association.
“We never received any invoicing from him,” Pistone said, indicating that Payne did legal work in exchange for limousine use. He said he started the limo company in 1982 and works there with his wife.
Prosecutors detailed a list of about a dozen times that Payne provided a limo for Dimora — for gambling and sex junkets, but also for trips for his wife or children. Pistone said some of the drivers, however, didn’t like taking the Payne jobs because they often didn’t get tips.
Prosecutors allege that Dimora accepted favors from Payne, who had pleaded guilty to several bribery counts in 2009, but died of complications of thyroid cancer before he could testify. Those favors, prosecutors say, also included
arranging gambling trips and prostitutes for the commissioner.

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Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial: Agent describes prostitutes discussed on wiretap
Published: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 10:45 AM     Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 11:36 AM
Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer
Jimmy Dimora, rear, arrives at the federal courthouse in Akron  this morning for his racketeering trial. Dimora is accompanied by attorneys Andrea Whitaker and William Whitaker, foreground left and right.
AKRON, Ohio –  Jurors in the Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial this morning heard more details of how Cuyahoga County employees in 2008 set up ways for the former commissioner to meet women for sex, according to prosecutors.
Testimony late this morning touched on Dimora’s request for a certain woman who had a tongue piercing. In a telephone conversation secretly recorded by the FBI, Dimora refers to the woman as as a “kumar” — apparently a variation or mispronunciation of “gumar,” a word used on the TV show “The Sopranos” to refer to a mistress or girlfriend. 

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Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial: FBI agent testifies that prostitutes, gambling trips were arranged for former commissioner
Published: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 11:45 AM     Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 1:33 PM
Midday update of Jimmy Dimora’s trial for Tuesday, Jan. 24 Plain Dealer reporter Peter Krouse updates you on what happened during the morning session of the county corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in Akron. Watch video
AKRON, Ohio — FBI Special Agent Michael Massie this morning continued a morning-long litany of sex and gambling escapades that prosecutors say former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora enjoyed in exchange for political favors.Dimora and co-defendant, Michael Gabor are on trial on racketeering charges in U.S. District Court in Akron. U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi has allowed the prosecution to call Massie to the stand on multiple occasions to give an overview of each alleged criminal scheme, before calling other witnesses to bolster their case against the former commissioner.
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Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial: Testimony focuses on gambling trips and sex (video)
Published: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 1:30 PM     Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 2:32 PM
Midday update of Jimmy Dimora’s trial for Tuesday, Jan. 24 Plain Dealer reporter Peter Krouse updates you on what happened during the morning session of the county corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in Akron. Watch video
AKRON, Ohio –  More talk of gambling and prostitutes has dominated the eighth day of witness testimony in former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora’s federal racketeering trial.
Just before a lunch break today, FBI Special Agent Michael Massie described how a now-deceased county worker arranged a man-cave for Jimmy Dimora and his associates at Stonebridge condominiums and paid for more than $14,000 in limo services.

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FBI Special Agent Michael Massie returned to the witness stand for the prosecution, providing the overview of a criminal scheme in which prosecutors allege that Dimora accepted favors from former county employee Kevin Payne.
Payne pleaded guilty to several bribery counts in 2009, but died of complications of thyroid cancer before he could testify.
Payne had admitted in court documents that he lobbied Dimora to approve a nearly $4 million lease for the county engineer’s office at the Stonebridge development on the west bank of the Flats.  Payne also said he sought the commissioner’s help with personnel matters at the county Sanitary Engineer’s Office between 2005 and 2008.
Payne also provided Dimora and his friends access to a condominium at Stonebridge that was loaned to Payne by the development, which is owned by K&D Group. Payne also paid for prostitutes to entertain Dimora, court documents state.

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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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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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