Update: The judge has ordered Dimora and co-defendant Michael Gabor detained in jail until sentencing. No date yet on that front.
Next week, however, the jury we reconvene in Akron to decide what Dimora will have to forfeit in restitution. We’re pretty sure the damage will be more than an ice maker.
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The jury found Jimmy Dimora guilty on a range of bribery, extortion, mail fraud, and racketeering charges this afternoon in his federal corruption trial. He was facing 34 counts in all; he was found not guilty of only one, a mail fraud charge.
The jury had deliberated for a week before coming back with a verdict late this morning.
King Cuyahoga, who once said “I’m no angel, but I’m not a crook” before the indictments were even handed down, was staring down a grand total of 60 years in jail. His bravado in the early stages had faded away, like his beard that had been trimmed away, as the trial progressed.
We’ll update on the exact counts — it’s 13 for 13 on guilty right now — after the jury is finished, and we’ll let you know about the sentencing portion of this is scheduled for when it’s announced.
If you want to take a wistful look back at the Jimmy Dimora tale, all our articles are archived here. It’s full of all the strippers, backyard pools, gross photoshops, Vegas trips, and Jimmy “DiGiorno” Dimora quips you could possibly ask for.
This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2012.
Big House Jimmy…sounds like the poor bastard is going to be in for life. Al Capone went to the big house and died of syphlis. Tax evation is what they put him in for cause there was no dna then to hook him with about five hundred or so murders (big guess here, who knows at that time how many bumps were sent down by the infamous Al Capone. I don’t think Jimmy wants to play the Al Capone of Cleveland any longer….was fun while it lasted anyways and he did get an outhouse for free and a roof and lots of chow…good chow…Jimmy seems like he just might become a cook when he’s in the big house with brother Frank…kind of like the guy in the Godfather who was cooking speggetti, even in the big house he was cooking for the other mafia guys who were always running things from prison. Do you think Jimmy could like run Cuyahoga from a jail house? All the big shots can do that, right. I ask you this: Can Jimmy put the finger on us in Cleveland for making fun of him and stuff? Once he’s in for life will he be vengeful toward anyone? I’ve seen some letters from prison guys who were going to fix somebody…like a lawyer or a girlfriend. Is Jimmy going to get hookers into the big house? What if Jimmy goes to the house and has the grounds filled with parties in Tiki Huts. The cartoon opportunities are huge. Do we have to give anyone a cut? Who is doing the Jimmy and Frank book? Les Roberts might be a good one for it…
As a lifelong democrat, I started voting against him, about 10-12 years ago. I knew he was corrupt and that he took the citizen of Cuyahoga county for a ride. I never understood, why people kept on voting him in, over and over again. He deserved what he got and I am happy he is finally in jail. As a woman, I do not understand, that Lori his wife, stood by his side, after all these allegations about hookers. She should have ran away from him, as fast as she could. Does she have no selfrespect, but I believe Dimora was a bully at home, same as on his job. Russo, Mcfaul and Dimora the biggest crooks in Cuyagoga county.
From the theme show of one of my childhood t.v. shows — “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the crime — no No NO — Don’t do it!” Now I am trying to decide how I should feel about his wife and kids and other family now that Jimmy D has been found guilty and is going to ClubFed … I mean prison.
Now if the F.B.I. would start raiding the offices of the Water Dept, NEORSD, Frank Jackson, Micheal White, Bill Mason, Jay Westbrook and the rest of his cronies in cime in Council, and of course the Cleveland Police Dept. with all their harassment/phony charges/killings etc.. Myself and I am sure all residents in this slowly becoming Ghost Town would be impressed.
Jimmy, see if one of your butt buddies would send you a few hundred cases of Soap on a Rope as your gonna need it.
The nicest thing I can say about Big ‘ol Fatty Fat Jimmy D is he’s a fat piece of garbage who deserves to rot in jail for what he did. Thank you for selling out the city and the people that love it so you can live comfortably in your mansion in Independence and get all sorts of little favors. I can only hope other inmates will invent a new game called “Jimmy D Fatty Fat Face Smash” which will involve smashing Jimmy D’s face into a cement wall to see who can make the biggest dent in the wall.
Congratulations to all the idiots that kept voting this guy back into office time and time again. Please continue to vote regularly so you can continue making Cleveland a better place.