This morning’s indictment of Jimmy Dimora (his second) and Michael Forlani accuses the duo on a host of charges — racketeering, mail fraud, etc. It runs some 91 pages, all of which you can read at this link.
Here at Scene & Heard, we know you’re not going to do that though, which is fine, that’s what we’re here for. As a public service, we’ve strapped on our blinders and dissected the paperwork for the best parts: the wiretap quotes. Yes, those never fail to entertain. We just can’t get enough of the Cuyahoga County Corruption All Stars talking to each other like the cavalier, low-level, greedy public servants and corrupt businessmen that they are. Below, a batch of highlights.
Before we get to those, you should know Forlani installed a $12,000 TV/entertainment system on Dimora’s outdoor patio. With the tiki hut, that was probably the pimpest spot in all of Independence.
Oh, and he had his own Pepsi machine. The wonders never cease. We imagine conversations between businessmen trying to bribe Dimora went something like this: “Well, I’ll just give him a two-story fridge. What? He has one already. Oh, OK. What about a gold-plated box of donuts? Has that too. Shit. Um, does he have a platinum ice cream scooper? No, good, OK, that’s what I’ll give him.”
Anyway, on to the real quotes.
This article appears in Oct 19-25, 2011.
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I’m not sure whether to watch The Untouchables on Antena TV or read the entire Jimmy-Forlani dialog. Oh my gosh dudes, you guys swear more than sailors. I know how cool I have felt in the past when I say real bad swears along with threats and such even if it never works out for me–I just end up taking another ass-whopping and being extorted for money I don’t have and getting telephone calls and letters of a legal nature from lawyers who try to push people around without any threats of physical damage. It is a new world of money and pull based in money and now the threat of being the Fraydo on a fishing boat with Qweeto bumping you while you are pulling in a nice Bluegill are over…at least in Cleveland.
Is it just me, or are we experiencing a period of intellectual stagnation? If it was not for the OWS thing which is just over two months old, it may be an even more dismal period for the thinking human. Does any one see that if it were legal, guys like me would be getting labotomys, via ice pick and ball-peen hammer, and chained back into a leprocy camp. I once again feel like many regular people like me are not insane because we think different from others, but insane for thinking we think differently than others.
Pirates take over ships and bend them to the winds and toward an island made of new and exciting ways of living. In the process, Pirates become thought of as bad people who only want to take that which is not theirs and use it to exploit the original owner. Yet the original owner has long lost possession and therfore has no say in the deed or the title. Squatters rights take over and the point in space-time becomes the ownership of those who occupy.