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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The ongoing Cuyahoga County corruption investigation deepened after a raid on County Executive Armond Budish’s office, the most public indication of an escalating investigation into the administration that began some 16 months ago.

Most of what is known about the investigation has been gleaned from public records, subpoenas served on the county, two search warrants and criminal charges against 12 county employees, including one current and two former members of Budish’s administration.

The investigation has since pivoted to the Cuyahoga County Jail, where eight inmates died in 2018 and one in 2019. The former warden and eight jail officers have so far been charged by special prosecutors.

Both Budish and prosecutors have since publicly defended their positions.

A total of 19 subpoenas have been served on the county, including two for records surrounding the death of jail inmates. A federal grand jury issued one of those subpoenas for records of the investigation into the suicide of inmate Brenden Kiekisz.

The on-going probe still has many questions that are unanswered.

The list of those named in those documents has grown since the first subpoena was issued in January 2018. Here is everyone known to have at least some involvement in the investigation, according to court records and subpoenas:

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Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County Executive

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The county executive since 2014, Budish was previously served four terms as an Ohio House of Representatives Democrat and stayed mostly silent through the corruption investigation when it was centered on the county’s IT department during most of 2018.

Since the investigation turned from the IT department to the Cuyahoga County Jail, where eight inmates died in 2018, he has made strong denials to committing any crimes. He has not been charged in the case and Yost declined to say if Budish was a target of the investigation he inherited.

The search warrant on his office, which sought his cellphone, computer and a trove of other documents, said prosecutors are searching for evidence of crimes of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, extortion, coercion, intimidation, civil rights violations, obstructing official business, intimidation and tampering with government records.

Budish called the raid a “political attack,” but he has never specified who is leading the so-called "attack."

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Dave Yost, Ohio Attorney General

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Yost, the former Republican Delaware County Prosecutor and Ohio Auditor, is in the first two months of his term after defeating Dettelbach, a Democrat, in the attorney general's race.

Yost said he’s comfortable with the scope of the investigation thus far, but he declined to elaborate.

The corruption investigation placed him in a position where he is pitted against his former political rival Dettelbach.

Dettelbach said he told O’Malley that he believed a conflict of interest existed because of O’Malley’s involvement in both the criminal investigation of Budish, while having to defend the county executive in lawsuits against Budish and his administration regarding the jail.

He later said he believes Yost has an even bigger conflict than O’Malley, citing their dogfight of a campaign. Yost said there’s no conflict and that it’s more important in a political corruption case to have someone from the opposite party investigating the case to avoid accusations of collusion.

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Steve Dettelbach, Budish’s attorney

Dettelbach, the U.S. Attorney during Cuyahoga County’s biggest corruption case in history, is Budish's personal attorney. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the northern half of the state from 2009 to 2016 and returned to the prominent Cleveland law firm BakerHostetler as a private attorney.

Dettelbach oversaw several notable cases, but did not oversee the county corruption investigation that ensnared Jimmy Dimora, Frank Russo and some 60 others. He recused himself from the case because he once served as an attorney for energy-conservation contractor Siemens Building Technologies, whose offices were searched during the corruption investigation.

He oversaw several terrorism cases, including the plot by five Occupy Cleveland members who attempted to buy explosives for a plan to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Dettelbach’s office also prosecuted three East Cleveland police officers who raided drug dealer’s homes by creating fake search warrants, then kept some of the cash they seized.

Other public corruption cases he oversaw included an RTA project superintendent who steered contracts towards his wife’s business, and a former Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District employee accused of pocketing $800,000 in illegal bribes and stolen checks.

He also investigated Cleveland police department in conjunction with the Justice Department, finding systemic deficiencies in the department. The report led to enter into a consent decree with the Justice Department where it agreed to enact sweeping changes to the police force.

In an interview with cleveland.com about the current investigation, Dettelbach said the investigation should end in no charges for his client because it lacked critical elements of criminal case, including that Budish had no intent to commit any crimes and never personally benefitted from any decisions he made in office.

He said there might be “legitimate criticisms” of Budish’s actions in office, but making poor budget decisions, adding more people to an already crowded jail, being too conscious of jail costs, and not having enough nurses on staff does not equate to a crime.

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Matt Meyer, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor

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Meyer is the assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor in charge of public corruption. He has worked for the prosecutor’s office since 2002.

He was in charge of the county prosecutor’s investigation of Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Then-county prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty decided not to charge the officers with any crimes.

Meyer was also the prosecutor who won a conviction against former Bedford Municipal Judge Harry Jacob III, who was found guilty of paying prostitutes for sex and falsifying court records.

Meyer has also been the special prosecutor on other public corruption cases, including the case against former Akron Police Chief James Nice and Mahoning County’s Oakhill corruption probe that began in 2006 in Mahoning County, but ended with some of the original defendants being convicted in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

Meyer also prosecuted police officers and corrections officers who committed crimes, including a police officer who had sex with a student when she was a teacher’s aide, a police officer who sent lewd text messages and photos to a 17-year-old girl and an East Cleveland police officer who drove a handcuffed man to a park and challenged him to a fight, then tried to intimidate him into not showing up for court hearings on the case.

Meyer also successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that set nationwide precedent that allows teachers and daycare workers to testify in child abuse cases.

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Paul Soucie, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor

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The supervisor of prosecutor’s economic crimes unit, Souice also remains an active investigator on the current county corruption case.

Souice’s high-profile cases include prosecuting the son of legendary golfer Charles Sifford, the first black golfer on the PGA Tour, for stealing from his father’s estate, and former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Deputy Michael Jackson, who stole some $20,000 in cash seized during drug cases.

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James Gutierrez, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor

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Gutierrez started off on the corruption probe but stepped aside after O’Malley’s office handed the case over to the attorney general.

He was one of the prosecutors in the trial of former Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo, who was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deadly car chase and shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

He also prosecuted complex cases against attorneys and a Westlake doctor who ran a pill mill that signed off on some 33,000 opioid prescriptions.

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Dan Kasaris, Assistant Ohio Attorney General

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Kasaris, a former Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor and now Assistant Ohio Attorney General, is working with Meyer and Gutierrez as on-the-ground prosecutors. He serves as something of a liaison between local investigators and Yost’s office.

He was a county prosecutor here for 23 years before going to the attorney generals’ office in 2013. He is also the Ward 6 City Councilman for North Royalton.

Kasaris was the prosecutor on the case against former Niles Mayor Ralph Infante, who was convicted on corruption charges that accused Infante of taking bribes from Cafaro Co. owners, stealing scrap metal from the city and running a gambling operation out of a club he used to own. Infante was sentenced to 10 years in prison and the case is being appealed.

That case also involved Yost, who was the state auditor at the time and whose office led the investigation, and Retired Visiting Judge Patricia Cosgrove, who was the visiting judge on that case and is now the judge on the criminal cases against the trio of Budish’s administrators.

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Robert DeSimone, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office investigator

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DeSimone is an investigator with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office, who is working with prosecutors on the case.

He is a former Parma police captain. He’s worked on several prosecutions, including the 2014 bribery case against former Richmond Heights School superintendent Robert Moore, who was sentenced to a year in prison.

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Patricia Cosgrove, Retired Visiting Judge

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Cosgrove, a retired Summit County Common Pleas Judge, is the visiting judge overseeing the criminal cases against Mills, Dykes and McNeeley.

She was appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court after Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst removed herself from the case “to avoid appearance of any conflict.”

Cosgrove has handled several other high-profile cases in Cuyahoga County, including the 2014 domestic violence case against former county judge Lance Mason.

Mason was convicted of felonious assault against his wife. Cosgrove approved Mason’s early reason from prison in that case, a decision that came under scrutiny after Mason ended up back in jail on accusations that he killed his ex-wife during a November 2018 incident in Shaker Heights.

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Peter Handwork, Retired Visiting Judge

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Handwork is a retired judge from the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals in Toledo who has been overseeing the special grand jury that has been hearing evidence and handed up last month’s indictments of Dykes, McNeeley and Mills.

He was an appeals court judge for 23 years.

Handwork in 2014 was appointed by then-Secretary of State Jon Husted to oversee the Montgomery County Board of Elections after a period of “chaos” and “dysfunction,” according to the Toledo Blade. Handwork oversaw the elections board for about three years before resigning.

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Below is a list of those charged with crimes in the investigation

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Emily McNeeley, former Cuyahoga County IT general counsel

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McNeely was the first target of the corruption investigation. Prosecutors had been subpoenaing information related to the county’s IT department since January 2018.

She was the county IT department's general counsel and director special initiatives. She faces charges, including felony counts of telecommunications fraud, tampering with government records and having an unlawful interest in a public contract.

Some of the charges relate to her failure to disclose to County Council at a Sept. 19, 2016 meeting that her father was convicted of being bribed by Ciber Inc., a company that was seeking a $9 million contract with the county.

She also failed to disclose the fact that Ciber had a “record of defrauding other states with whom (Ciber) had contracted,” according to prosecutors.

County Council awarded contracts to several vendors in connection with its ERP computer project in 2016. Two of the vendors were Ciber and Infor Public Sector Inc. Ciber filed for bankruptcy protection in April of 2017 and Infor took over the work Ciber had been doing.

The charges against McNeeley also include having an unlawful interest in public contracts. Prosecutors said she "managed and steered" contracts with Hyland Software, where her spouse worked and owned stock.

She pleaded not guilty to charges.

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Douglas Dykes, Cuyahoga County Chief Talent Officer

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Dykes has been charged with theft in office and tampering with government records, both felonies, along with misdemeanor charges of obstructing official business and making a false statement. He has pleaded not guilty.

Dykes was charged in connection with the payment to Hay. Prosecutors say Dykes asked for, but did not receive, authorization from the county to change the payment to then-Deputy Chief Information Officer Jim Hay from moving expenses to a signing bonus, then lied to an unnamed county employee about then-Law Director Robert Triozzi approving the change.

The payments to Hay and the other employees circumvented approval by Cuyahoga County Council.

Dykes was hired as chief talent officer for the county at the end of 2015. His job is to oversee human resources operations.

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Ken Mills, former Cuyahoga County Director of Corrections

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Mills is the former Cuyahoga County Jail director of corrections. He was promoted to that position despite having no previous experience in corrections.

Under Mills’ direction, jail administrators cut costs for basic items for inmates as he spearheaded a Budish-driven plan to regionalize the county’s jails. The plan was pitched to cities as a way for them to save money on running their own jails. The county charged $99 per day per inmate and banked on that money, along with plans to cut costs by switching nursing and food providers, as a way to make more money for the county.

After Cleveland transferred their inmates over to county custody beginning in March, the jail became packed, putting pressure on a jail that already had a lack of corrections officers and other issues.

Seven of the eight inmates who died in 2018 were in the jail while Mills was in charge. He resigned in November, ahead of a U.S. Marshals report that described “inhumane” conditions for inmates, including that inmates were denied consistent access to medical and mental health care.

Mills is charged with felony counts of tampering with government records and telecommunications fraud, accused of lying during a May 22 Cuyahoga County committee meeting about his role in blocking the hiring a nurses at the county’s three jails— the main one in downtown Cleveland and two satellite jails in Bedford Heights and Euclid.

He later lied to investigators “about his interactions with a high-level Cuyahoga County official,” according to prosecutors. Those actions resulted in misdemeanor falsification and obstruction of official business charges.

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Warden Eric Ivey

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Ivey worked as warden from May 2017 until his demotion in February when it was revealed that he supervised his wife’s supervisor, according to a county inspector general investigation.

The marshal’s report singled the warden for a number of reasons, including:

Ordering food withheld food as punishment for some inmates

His failure to make weekly visits to the jail

He did not check on inmates being held in isolation

Failure to supervise the jail's Special Response Team, whose officers are accused of threatening, harassing, intimidating and attacking inmates

Criminal charging documents accuse Ivey of ordering officers turn off their body cameras during the investigation into the Aug. 27 death of inmate Joseph Arquillo, and later lying to investigators about why.

He told investigators that he ordered the body cameras turned off because he wanted to protect Arquillo’s medical privacy “when his true purpose was to prevent the evidence from being used in an official proceeding,” the indictment says.

Ivey remains on the county’s payroll after his April 18 indictment on charges of tampering with records, a third-degree felony, and a first-degree misdemeanor count of falsification. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Ivey was put on paid administrative leave one day after the charges were filed. He makes $93,000 per year.

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Officer Martin Devring

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Devring is also charged in connection with Arquillo’s death. The county fired the longtime corrections officers about five months after Arquillo’s death and while the case was under investigation.

He ignored Arquillo as he died of a drug overdose in the jail and lied about making his required checks on inmates, according to prosecutors.

Devring walked up to Arquillo’s mat on the jail floor, kicked the mat and walked away despite the fact that Arquillo was in an “unnatural position” that showed he was clearly in distress, according to records obtained by cleveland.com.

He was charged April 8 with tampering with evidence, dereliction of duty and interfering with civil rights. Devring pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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Cpl. Idris-Farid Clark

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Clark is accused of strapping 29-year-old inmate Chantelle Glass to a restraint chair on July 16, 2018 and unleashing about a half-can of pepper spray in her face from about a foot away.

Glass said she ended up in the restraint chair after repeatedly asking for and being denied a phone call after she was arrested in connection with a domestic dispute.

The indictment says Glass complied with the officers and got into the restraint chair before Clark pepper-sprayed her.

Instead of taking Glass to get medical treatment, they locked her in a small cell by herself, poured water over her and left her there for two hours by herself, Glass said.

Clark was indicted April 8 and charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and first-degree misdemeanor counts of interfering with civil rights and unlawful restraint.

He was placed on unpaid administrative leave after the indictment.

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Officer Robert Marsh

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Marsh is also charged in connection with the attack on Glass. He is accused of punching Glass in the head after she was strapped to the chair and before Clark pepper-sprayed her.

He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to misdemeanor charges of assault, interfering with civil rights and unlawful restraint.

He was placed on unpaid administrative leave after the indictment.

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Cpl. Nicholas Evans

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Evans on March 22, 2019 turned off his body camera and attacked inmate Terrance Debose while Debose was strapped to a restraint chair, according to the indictment.

He punched Debose in the head several times, according to court records. Evans suffered a concussion.

Evans and another officer left Debose in the restraint chair for two hours, depriving him of his constitutional right to get medical treatment, the indictment says.

Evans is charged with second-degree felonious assault, third-degree felony tampering with evidence, and misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and two counts of interfering with civil rights. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

He was placed on unpaid administrative leave after the indictment.

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Officer Timothy Dugan

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Dugan is charged along with Marsh in the March 22 incident. He is accused of punching Debose in the head several times.

He is charged with second-degree felonious assault and misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and two counts of interfering with civil rights.

He is on unpaid administrative leave.

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Officer John Wilson

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Wilson, an officer on the jail’s maligned Special Response Team, beat 21-year-old inmate Joshua Castleberry bloody after Castleberry asked for an extra sandwich to eat on Feb. 8, 2018, according to prosecutors and an incident report.

Castleberry is a veteran of the United States Army who was in the jail after an arrest on charges of domestic violence and attempted assault of a police officer.

Wilson punched Castleberry several times and knocked out two of his front teeth, including one that got lodged in his nasal cavity, according to prosecutors.

He suffered a broken nose and needed facial reconstruction surgery to repair the damage from the attack, the indictment says.

Wilson and another officer strapped Castleberry to a restraint chair and left in him alone in a small isolation cell, the indictment says.

Wilson is charged with felonious assault, interfering with civil rights and unlawful restraint.

He is on paid administrative leave.

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Cpl. Jason Jozwiak

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Jozwiak was charged along with Wilson in the incident. He is not accused of attacking Castleberry.

He is accused of refusing to allow a nurse to give Castleberry medical attention after the attack. Jozwiak then lied to investigators about being in the isolation room along with Castleberry and Wilson and blocking the nurse, according to the indictment.

He is charged with falsification and interfering with civil rights.

He is on paid administrative leave.

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Officer Stephen Thomas

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Thomas, also a member of the jail’s SRT, is accused of selling drugs to inmates while on-duty. Cuyahoga County Sheriff detectives on May 8 watched Thomas on surveillance video go into an inmate’s cell, then leave. The investigators went into the cell immediately after and found 10 oxycodone pills, according to court records.

The deputies arrested Thomas in the Justice Center shortly after and found he had $1,409 in cash, and a small piece of a plastic glove that contained suspected drugs, court records say. Investigators also seized a cellphone.

He is charged with drug trafficking, drug possession possessing criminal tools and illegally conveying drugs into a detention facility. Those charges could change or more could be added when the case is presented to a Cuyahoga County grand jury.

Prosecutors in the case said Thomas is suspected of being part of a larger network that smuggled drugs and other contraband into the jail. Investigators also have evidence connecting Thomas to an April 8 smuggling incident in the jail and to an inmate’s drug overdose, prosecutors said during a court hearing.

Thomas has not yet entered a plea in the case or hired an attorney. He is on unpaid leave from his job. Thomas filed for bankruptcy about a month before his arrest.

The county placed Thomas, who was hired in February 2018, on unpaid administrative leave, county records say.

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Below is a list of those named in court records or subpoenas, but have not been charged with any crimes

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Rachel Winder and Rob Zimmerman

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Winder and Zimmerman, a Shaker Heights City Councilman, lobbied the county and an Alabama-based company called NaphCare at the same time.

Winder works for the Columbus-based Benesch law firm.

Former Jail Director Ken Mills and the Budish administration proposed hiring NaphCare in 2017 as a way to cut health care costs at the jail. NaphCare is a nursing company that staffs jails. The county was under contract with MetroHealth to provide nurses for the jail.

Budish’s administration proposed using NaphCare as a way to cut costs associated with the jail at a time the county was preparing to bring on new inmates as part of Budish’s plan to regionalize the county’s jails.

The county expected to make money off of regionalization by charging municipalities who signed up for regionalization, including Cleveland, $99 per day per inmate, along with cutting costs.

The administration proposed privatizing healthcare by using Naphcare and changing food providers at the jail to save $1.9 million annually, according to county documents and records provided to cleveland.com.

The Naphcare proposal drew sharp rebukes from Cuyahoga County Council, who quickly shot the idea down.

Two former Cuyahoga County employees have told cleveland.com that they were questioned by the FBI about the attempt to bring on NaphCare.

The former nursing director, Harris, and a second official say they were questioned by the FBI about the attempt to bring on NaphCare.

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Robert Triozzi, former Cuyahoga County Law Director

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Triozzi was the county’s law director until he resigned in Jan. 14. He was subpoenaed to appear before the special grand jury on Dec. 14.

He was the county law director for four years, making an annual salary of $175,115 at the time of his resignation.

Triozzi said that resigned to pursue a role in higher education related to justice reform, according to a county press release.

An internal county audit accused him of failing to adequately supervise the IT department. That claim was the focus of the early stages of the the ongoing corruption investigation. Triozzi denied that accusation.

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Scot Rourke, Cuyahoga County IT administrator

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McNeeley’s boss, Rourke was also named in subpoenas, but unlike McNeeley he does not face any criminal charges.

Rourke, the county’s IT director who is on unpaid leave, founded OneCommunity, a company devoted to extending high-speed internet access to hospitals, schools and government offices, in 2003. He served as the company’s CEO until 2013, when he was hired by the county.

Cuyahoga County in 2015 entered into a $370,975 contract with OneCommunity for their services.

A subpoena served on the county in 2018 sought copies of communications that Rourke and McNeeley may have had with OneCommunity. The subpoena specifically sought records of "any discussion or reference of a settlement, agreement, debt, additional payment or any other documentation of money purportedly owed by Cuyahoga County to OneCommunity" since Jan. 1, 2016.

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Sharon Sobol Jordan, former chief of staff for Budish

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Sobol Jordan, Budish’s first chief of staff, resigned from the county on Feb. 9, 2018 the same day county prosecutor’s subpoenaed her time sheets, travel records and expense reports.

Budish had authorized Sobol Jordan to attend MBA classes at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business while on county time because he considered her pursuit of the advanced degree important to her work in his administration.

Budish also authorized the county to pay for Jordan’s travel to classes in Columbus and for hotel stays there. Budish when questioned by cleveland.com acknowledged some in his administration received special treatment and vowed to end that practice.

Sobol Jordan has not been charged with any crime.

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Michael Young

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Young replaced Rourke as the head of the IT department. He was named in subpoenas along with several other former or current county employees seeking their communication with McNeeley and Rourke, including deleted emails.

Other county communication from county employees subpoenaed in connection with their communication with McNeeley and Rourke include: Mike Dimarino, a county systems information analyst, Cindy Nappi, an IT administrator, Dennis Kennedy, the county’s chief financial officer, Lenora Lockett, the director of the office of procurement and diversity and Maggie Keenan, the director of the office of budget and management, and Jeff Mowry, the IT director before Rourke, Debbie Davtovich, the web and applications administrator in the IT department, and Sarah Cammock, an assistant law director.

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Jim Hay, former Cuyahoga County deputy chief information officer

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Hay was a former deputy chief information officer for the county for about 19 months until he resigned during the investigation.

Hay, who made $153,000 annually, was named in several subpoenas regarding a $15,000 payment that was originally supposed to be for moving expenses but was later designated as a signing bonus.

Then-auditor Yost issued a report in December that said the payment was among $63,000 in illegally awarded incentives to Hay and seven other county employees.

Hay and the other employees promised to repay the $15,000. He has not been charged with a crime. However, his boss at the time, Douglas Dykes, the county’s Chief Talent Officer who approved the payment has been charged.

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Gary Brack, former director of ambulatory care at the Cuyahoga County Jail

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Brack’s subpoena was obtained by cleveland.com and is one of two people on the list not named in a subpoena served on the county offices.

Brack is the former director of ambulatory care at the jail. He worked for MetroHealth, but was an on-the-grounds supervisor of medical care at the jail until Budish demanded his ouster following a contentious May 22 Cuyahoga County Council committee meeting in which he criticized Mills and the way Mills ran the jail.

Brack told council members during the meeting that Mills meddled in healthcare at the jail, blocked the hiring of nurses and scaled back security in the medical unit, making it unsafe for nurses.

The next day, Budish demanded that Brack be removed from his position at the jail. MetroHealth had to comply based on the terms of their contract, Dettelbach told cleveland.com.

Brack's attorney, Subodh Chandran, said in an email to cleveland.com that a contract cannot violate someone's civil rights.

A MetroHealth disciplinary letter said that Brack displayed “unprofessional and personally offensive conduct caused immediate damage to MetroHealth’s relationship with Cuyahoga County during the meeting.

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Eddy Kraus, former Cuyahoga County Director of Regional Collaboration

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Solon’s mayor and former county director of regional collaboration under Budish testified in front of the grand jury on Dec. 7. He was spotted going in and out of the grand jury by a cleveland.com reporter.

He declined to say why corruption investigators asked him to testify.

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Theodore Carter, Cuyahoga County's chief economic development and business officer

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Carter is the county’s chief economic development and business officer. His emails, along with the emails of Julie Gresko, a temporary county employee who worked as Carter’s administrative assistant, were subpoenaed by prosecutors in May.

No criminal charges have been filed against Carter or Gresko, and it remains unclear exactly what prosecutors sought when they asked for those records.

The subpoena specifically sought emails between Carter and Gresko and three emails— "THEPOTOMACCOALITON@GMAIL.COM, RONLESTER711@AOL.COM AND MHDCHI@YAHOO.COM"— and any emails that had the terms Potomac or Potomac Coalition.

The email address ronLester711@aol.com is listed on the website for a market research company called Lester & Associates that lists an address in Upper Marlboro, Md.

A Ron Lester at Lester & Associates told cleveland.com in March that he didn’t know why he’d be associated with a subpoena involving Carter. He said he knew Carter from New Jersey but was unaware that Carter lived in Cleveland.

The Potomac Coalition is a nonprofit organization that gave a $10,000 donation in 2016 to a Democrat-aligned political action committee based in Columbus.

Carter came under scrutiny by Cuyahoga County Council in March after he was unable to give council answers regarding some 200 delinquent economic development loans.

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Eliza Wing, Cuyahoga County chief communication officer

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Wing is Budish’s chief communication officer. Prosecutors in their most recent search warrant sought her computer, along with notebooks and notepads used in the course of Wing’s duties, along with unedited copies of videos made by Budish on Feb. 15, one posted on the county’s website and youtube channel and the other sent to county employees.

Wing told cleveland.com that she believes prosecutors are trying to bully her because she is helping Budish with his communications strategy, which is her job.

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Mark Griffin, Cuyahoga County Inspector General

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Griffin, pictured at far left, is the county’s inspector general. He has been named in some subpoenas seeking records of his involvement in investigations into Rourke and McNeeley. He is conducting his own investigation of the Cuyahoga County Jail, and has issued two reports so far. One report says former county jail Warden Eric Ivey violated the county’s nepotism policy. The other says Mills used racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic comments while running the jail.

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Cory Swaisgood, Cuyahoga County internal auditor

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Swaisgood is the county’s internal auditor and conducted an audit on the IT department, including looking into the dealings of Rourke and McNeeley.

He suggested, among other findings, that the county seek to recover $119,782 in payments to OneCommunity, Rourke’s former company, for services that could not adequately be reconciled during the audit.

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Laura Roche, Budish's administrative assistant

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Roche is Budish’s administrative assistant. Her computer was also seized during the raid on the county building.

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Paul Gains, Mahoning County Prosecutor

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Gains is the Mahoning County Prosecutor, whose role in the Cuyahoga County corruption case is to review documents seized from Budish’s office and determine if they fall under attorney-client privilege.