Well, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like the Frank Russo Party-Til-You-Drop Tour 2012 is finally hobbling to a long-awaited finish. After months of rumors and reports about the former Cuyahoga auditor gunning around to Cleveland hot spots and living the high life, the don of county corruption is finally going to jail.
This morning Russo was called before a federal judge. The US Attorney’s office announced they’d maxed-out their use for the disgraced pol, who threw his former buddies under the wheel of justice after falling to his own bribery charges.
After Russo pleaded guilty in 2010, he was allowed to hit-pause on his 21 year sentence in exchange for his testimony. Between courtroom appearances, he didn’t really lay low, but dandied about town, dining in hip joints, hitting clubs, and ducking the growing ire of citizens pissed to see him free.
As Newsnet5 points out, a former Russo bud Samir Mohammad recently changed his plea from not guilty to guilty — a move that probably ended Russo’s usefulness to the state and started the countdown on when he’d head to prison.
This morning the judge told Russo he must report to federal jail in December.
This article appears in Oct 24-30, 2012.
‘Bout freaken time already….assclown pillowbiter thief…..
“Nothing I can do about it”? How’s about surrendering your pension and all your other assets to the citizens you stole them from, Frank?
This story would cheer me up far more if he weren’t free for another 5 or 6 weeks. WHY is there so much lag time in dragging Frankie the Fiend off to prison?
For a gay man getting sent to prison is the same as a straight man getting locked up in a sorority house.
The most important question is whether the Democrat voters of Cuyahoga County are reforming themselves and will stop voting for filthy criminals who have dragged this county down the tubes. I suspect they have not learned anything.
What this county (along with the rest of the country) needs is a strong two party system. ” Oh no! the Republicans are for the Rich and the Democrats are for for the poor!” This thinking keeps guy like Russo and Dimorra in power with no fear of losing their job. But, hey, I’m wasting my breath, This is Cuyahoga County.
The best way he can make a difference in the future is by sitting in jail, safely away from the county’s money.