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If the father of someone you know dies, sending flowers is a nice thing to do. In lieu of flowers, a donation to one of their the deceased’s favorite charities might be in order. For the grieving, you might take them a casserole or a veggie plate.

When Jimmy Dimora’s dad died, however, it was not flowers or food or charitable donations he was looking for. Via the PD’s coverage of today’s action at the Dimora trial:

When J. Kevin Kelley asked what he could bring to the wake of fomer Cuyahoga County Commisioner Jimmy Dimora’s father, Michael Gabor didn’t suggest food or flowers, according to testimony this morning in Dimora’s federal racketeering trial .

“Listen, listen Jim said bring an envelope,” Dimora’s friend Gabor told Kelley in a secretly recorded conversation played for jurors.

“Hey, What’s new?” replied Kelley, who at the time was working for the county.

As if you needed another reason to think that the guy was a scumbag.

This article appears in Feb 8-14, 2012.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

7 replies on “Envelopes Full of Cash Help Jimmy Dimora Deal With Grief”

  1. In a world where cash is king, must it also be god? ‘Give onto Caesar what is Caesar’s and give onto the Good Lord what is his/hers’ If you think that Jimmy and the corrupt democrats in Cuyahoga are alone in this ‘envelopes with money in them’ thing you are living in a dream world. It is not always as unabashed as Jimmy, Frank and gang approached it, yet in many ways doesn’t that make them even more honest and less sneaky? If we are only talking of tax money being miss-used aren’t those who have paid only 14% taxes (or Less) and still did little good with the millions which they got back from our tax dollars even more guilty than Jimmy? Just how many jobs did Mitt create b paying 14% on the 22 million he made last year. Is it money well spent to finance attack ad after attack ad?
    A few days ago I wrote a comment informing clevescene that I have almost satisfied my goal of three hundred comments and will therefore reduce my interaction on this site. I know there are many who will be so happy about this and will be happy to return to their domination of this site in the same way others on the other cleveland site were happy to have me thrown off. This, if not rejected as my earlier message was, will be 296.

  4. the entire country runs on pay to play; if you don’t bribe or kiss the asses of our politicians you won’t recieve justice. that includes all law enforcement agencies.

  5. JIMMY THE FATMAN DIMORA WATCHED TO MUCH OF THE SOPRANO’S, TO THE POINT TO WHERE HE ACTUALLY BEGAN TO THINK HE WAS TONY SOPRANO. HE SHOULD HAVE PLEAD INSANITY DUE TO LITERALLY TAKING OVER THE FICTIONAL LIFE OF TONY SOPRANO. HE PROBABLY WOULD GET OFF, & I DON’T MEAN WITH A HOOKER. ITS TO BAD HE HOOKED OTHER PEOPLE INTO HIS SOPRANO WORLD, SUCH AS THE HAPPY GO LUCKY MICHAEL THE SWING MASTER GABOR. RIP IN THE PEN BIG JIMMY SOPRANO.

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