CLEVELAND, Ohio - Public-corruption investigators from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office have subpoenaed County Executive Armond Budish's administration for records involving top officials in the department of information services and contracts involving Hyland Software.



Investigators also requested in a separate subpoena numerous records - including time sheets and travel records -- related to the employment of Budish's chief of staff, Sharon Sobol Jordan, who recently announced she is leaving to take a new job.

The subpoenas, copies of which were provided to cleveland.com on Friday morning, make no mention of what investigators suspect. But the subpoenas do detail the records being sought.

Sources have confirmed to cleveland.com that the FBI conducted some interviews with county employees who were questioned during the course of the investigation.

One subpoena asks for all emails between Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Information Officer Scot Rourke and Hyland Software, a county contractor. The subpoena also asks for emails between the county's IT general counsel and director of special initiatives, Emily McNeeley, and Hyland Software.

The county received this subpoena on January 24, 2018.



Among other things, it asks the county to turn over copies of "any self-disclosure or self-reporting form or document by Scot Rourke and/or Emily McNeeley relating to outside employment, compensation, wages, bonuses, travel or any other form of transaction received by Scot Rourke and/or Emily McNeeley; any and all paper or electronic records of access by Scot Rourke and Emily McNeeley to documents related to any contract between Cuyahoga County and the following entities: OneCommunity , OneCleveland, Everstream, DigitalC and Hyland.Software, including, but not limited to Server Access Logs."

Rourke started in December 2015. McNeeley has been with the county since November 2014.

County spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said Rourke and McNeeley were unavailable for comment on Friday. Both, she said, remain in their jobs without restrictions.

The subpoena seeking information related to Jordan's employment was received February 9, 2018. It primarily seeks details about time Jordan took off from her county job. Cleveland.com reported this week that the county allowed Jordan to obtain an executive MBA while working as chief of staff. Her course work required her to miss work to attend classes and for class-related travel.

You can read the subpeanas in the boxes below.

Nearly 10 years ago, the FBI launched a series of raids on various offices and homes that were a part of the largest public corruption investigation in Cuyahoga County history. The investigation led to the conviction of some 60 politicians, public employees and private contractors, including then-County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison, and then-County Auditor Frank Russo, who received nearly 22 years behind bars.

The investigation largely fueled a reform effort to completely remake county government. In 2009, county residents voted to create the job of county executive to replace seven independently elected officials under the old form of government. Advocates for the new charter government structure, which also replaced three county commissioners with an 11-member County Council, said it would make the county government more efficient, transparent and accountable.

Like the county's first county executive, Democrat Ed FitzGerald, Budish campaigned on those principles and pledged to put checks in place to help root out early seeds of corruption.

Budish declined to comment on the investigation when asked about it on Thursday.



Cuyahoga County Law Director Robert Triozzi said in a statement on Friday morning that he is not aware of any specific allegations being made.



"It's inappropriate to speculate simply based on the public records we've be requested to provide," he said. "We are cooperating fully with the investigation. If there is any evidence of wrongdoing, we are as interested as the Prosecutor in ensuring that we find it and take immediate action. "

Late Friday, Budish released the following statement:

"While the subpoenas my administration released are part of an ongoing investigation, and while we've not been told of any allegations, or apprised of the purpose of their inquiry, I want to be very clear: I cannot and will not tolerate any bad behavior," Budish wrote. "If anyone has done anything wrong, we'll get to the bottom of it."