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Jimmy Dimora is guilty of racketeering -- and all but one of the 34 federal charges he was facing.



That's the verdict from a federal jury on the three dozen charges on which the panel is deciding today at the John F. Seiberling Federal Building and U.S. District Court.





Dimora was found not guilty, however, on Count 30 in the indictment, for allegedly defrauding his campaign fund out of money by having

bill the fund for a birthday party for Dimora's wife. (See the instructions given to the jury on how to address that count in the first document viewer below).

The verdicts were read this afternoon on 26 charges relating to Dimora alone, three relating only to

of Parma and five in which both defendants were named.

on seven of the eight charges he was facing, including racketeering.

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Dimora was joined in the courtroom this afternoon by his wife and other family members.

After all of the verdicts were read for both Dimora and Gabor, U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi told the jury members that they would need to return to the court Tuesday morning to "decide other issues," but released some of the alternates.

"You are to discuss this case with no one," Lioi said to alternates.

She cautioned the jurors that there would be media coverage of their decision, but not to read it.

The jury had ended a sixth day of deliberations Thursday without reaching a verdict after 37 hours of considering the evidence and deliberated another several

hours today before notifying the judge that the panel had reached a verdict.

They returned to the courtroom at 12:11 p.m. and the jury foreman handed sealed envelopes to Judge Lioi, who reviewed each of them.The court was expected to read the verdicts in the 34 charges against Dimora first -- 29 of which he is indicted alone and the other five Gabor. The verdict on Gabor is then expected to be announced separately by the jury.

Gabor is named alone in three separate counts -- relating to

having

running a sham campaign against then county auditor Frank Russo and giving $6,000 to former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo for giving a full-time job to a woman named Lilian Trovato.

The jury panel of seven men and five women was first given the case Thursday afternoon after closing arguments over two days from prosecutors and defense attorneys for Dimora, the former Cuyahoga County commissioner, and Gabor, a former office assistant in the auditor's office .



Jurors have had several questions for Lioi, including

about the definition of interstate and foreign commerce in the racketeering law and one on Thursday March 1 about a

.

Racketeering, or RICO, stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, a section of federal law established by the 1970 Organized Crime Control Act

and initially aimed at Mafia operations.





Dimora was accused of using his county commissioner's office as the base to run a criminal enterprise. Gabor, Dimora's former driver, was charged with bribery and conspiracy, including a charge that he paid a judge $10,000 to fix his divorce case.

The

and Gabor are found in a 37-count, 148-page federal indictment (see full text in document reader below).

Gabor is accused of bribery and conspiracy, including a charge that he tried to pay a judge $10,000 to fix his divorce case.

Reporters James F. McCarty, Peter Krouse, Rachel Dissell, Stan Donaldson, John Caniglia and Michael Scott contributed to this story.