From Eric J Brewer: Meredith Turner, deliver this message to Sherrod. The residents have already gotten his bullshit August 12, 2015 "pass the buck" letter to Craig White, Kasich's Ohio EPA director. Here's a copy of it. His response his unacceptable. 

Tell Sherrod to drive his ass from Mill Creek off E. 93rd Street where he lives in the hood with the brothers and sisters over to East Cleveland. It's not that far unless he and Connie have moved.

Tell him that the residents of East Cleveland and Cleveland need more than just letter lip service, but direct action in exchange for the loyal vote he's received from the Descendants of Slaves. Tell him that if he doesn't show up, and if he doesn't show the type of concern that sends some highly qualified federal and state investigators out here to identify everything that we already know is illegal about the site, and how it was allowed to operate by rogue government officials, that he's going to get the same treatment as Tim McGinty, Ed Fitzgerald and John O'Donnell the next time he runs. Tell him that's a promise. 

If you don't want to tell him send this post and he can read my words for himself. Ain't nobody on this page falling for that do-nothing from the Democrats bullshit while lives and health are being affected.

Y'all can read Brown's pass the buck letter for yourselves. I'm sharing Marcia Fudge's next.

"Thank you for contacting my office regarding your concerns with the Arco Recycling, Inc. facility on Noble Road. On September 9, 2015 I received a letter from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), which detailed the results of air quality and physical materials testing at the site.

Off site air samples were taken, along with material samples on site, and both tests came back negative for asbestos. These samples and frequent observations of the site have found the company to be in full environmental compliance. According to the OEPA, additional tests will be conducting the Cleveland Dividion of Air Quality (CDAQ) next week, with results to follow in two to three weeks.

I am pleased that I was able to assist you in this matter and hope this information addreses your concerns. If you should have any other federally-related questions or concerns in the future, please do not hesitate to contact my District Office at (216)522-4900 or write to me at www.fudge.house.gov."

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Alexis Dillard, Donna Drummonds ,,, Jerry Strothers and Cathy White did a great job in drawing attention early on to the problem and documenting their interactions with officials and the players. They're to be commended. I'm just building on what they've already started. 

Harry was as honest as he could be when he told me they had no clue on what to do when it first opened. I'd be selfish with gifts God gave me if I didn't use them to help when the need arose. 

Jim Riffle came to me through a friend I've known for over 30 years who had his own concern about the dump. So this is a collaboration between a few well-intentioned people who want to help you folk and those in Cleveland and the surrounding communities who are affected by the toxic dump in your backyards.

I know I'm going to step on toes to get the attention of officials who've already written the dump off as okay. I'll apologize now if they're offended, but this has got to be done no matter who's toes are hurt. Elected and appointed public officials have no rights of office that allows them to manipulate government for profit at the expense of the people. I don't care what anybody says. Them assholes in East Cleveland and at the Ohio EPA will take some fucking money and this deal smells like money was taken by a whole lot of elected and appointed public officials.

From Jerry Strothers at EC 4112News.com :Private Emails that show how George Michael Riley Sr. came up with the concrete crusher scam he played on everyone at EC City Hall from Mayor to Council. They all fell for his scam and the people on Noble Road are paying the price for their lack of doing basic research on this dude just because he is white.
(CLICK THE PICTURE TO SEE THE EMAILS) 
George "Mike" Riley Sr. is trying to live the life at THE CARLYLE CONDOS OF Lakewood Ohio where he is charming lots of lonely women with money and laughing at everyone in East Cleveland Ohio. 
Thanks to the M&M Duo of Michael Smedley and Michael Cardilli he has set-up another business in EC and makes money using homeless men from the shelter downtown Cleveland. 
#44112News provides all of our research to the public for everyone to see what is really going on around town. Now we are waiting to see if Brandon King the acting mayor continues his relationship with Riley that led King to say that there is nothing wrong with the Noble Road Dump. At one time Brandon King said the residents on Noble Road were liars because there is no dust or dirt coming from the four story tall toxic dump.
Now, is there anyone out there ready to get the 1000 signatures to place Brandon King and the rest of Gary Norton Jr's people out on the street. That's right, Fire Them All and get some good people who can help bring our back alive. 
Interested people can contact #44112News at EC44112 [at] gmail [dot] com or TEXT (216) 324-4783.
Take a look at this email: http://44112news.com/…/George_Michael_Riley_Senior.email002…

from Eric J Brewer:

So the Plain Dealer's editors want to give criminally derelict Ohio EPA officials credit for closing the Noble Road dump because of their wonderful inspectors.

If the inspectors found toxins a week earlier, why did they make the decision the day after OEPA Director Craig Butler got a voicemail from me? Why'd they wait if it was so urgent? Why didn't Butler close it in 2014 when a Cleveland Division of Air Pollution Control inspector under Mayor Frank Jackson's supervision was told of and identified "fugitive dust?" Why didn't Butler order tests of the "fugitive dust" like he was asked by U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge in October 2015?

Hi Eric…
I think I have an old number for you. Wanted to thank you for the spirit of your note. You are right…we should have aired the story yesterday, it’s important…especially given that we were the only station to attend the news conference. Barring being preempted for Inaugural parade coverage, we are doing the story tonight at 6.
Thanks…
Russ

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/cuyahoga-county/epa-shuts-down-controversial-dump-site-in-east-cleveland/389464239

Russ. When I got the first report from Jim Riffle and he explained the health impact on the people nearby, and those in the surrounding areas, I got this sinking feeling in my chest like someone close to me had died. When I drove the area and saw the proximity to Collinwood High, and saw that the stadium the kids played in was right behind the dump, I became enraged. EN-FUCKING-RAGED and I'm still feeling that way.

Imagine kids involved in accelerated breathing, and black parents and families in the stadium taking deep breaths of this toxic death everytime they proudly cheered their athletic sons.

These toxins are killers. They're all highly carcenogenic. Imagine glass particles from fiberglass and the crushed windows being picked up and scattered into the air in abnormally large sizes. That's what's in the report. Imagine tar being burned and vaporized through crushing and carried by the air as particles. It gets in your lungs and or the moist tissue inside your body ... you get cancer. It touches your skin ... you get cancer. They're called PAH's or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and they're deadly.

These people are mass murderers and their victims will die slow deaths. I served 4 years in the U.S. Air Force in medical administration. I worked for the Commander of the School of Aerospace Medicine as an administrative clerk and learned a great deal from the military libraries about epidemiology. I worked in the epidemiology division.

This is an environmental catastrophe and the fucking Plain Dealer is treating criminals like saviours. And you guys send a camerman out and cover a fucking dog over black people. Sorry brother. That shit ain't going down without the public getting afull understanding of the atrocity. These are our airwaves.

So, we have St. Louis roots. We were raised in a city where slaves were sold on the courthouse steps. I attended Assumption Catholic High School with the grandsons of the Irish Catholic Democrats who voted the town white and went to the black neighborhoods in 1917 and burned over 100 homes and businesses, and murdered over 300 of our people. The Nash's of Nash Funeral Home lived in East Boogie back then. My Dad worked for them while he drove for Bi-State, possibly with your Uncle. Some of us have got to fight for our people no matter how we're disparaged by those who want to keep the truth hidden.

A dog's health over the health of thousands of black people? Come on brother. Both of us are the Descendants of Slaves. We gotta accept this shit?

Hey Eric…

You’re right. That’s why I sent you that note. I’m not sure why it fell between the cracks yesterday but I as I told you, it shouldn’t have. You should know that when I pressed our people this am after your note, they didn’t know either. And they agreed with you..and me…that we should do this story today. I promise you there was nothing personal or malicious involved…but again, it shouldn’t have happened. I thank you for the spirt of your e-mails and your passion about this.

Don’t blame you for being upset when you drove by the area. That’s insane and insulting to all…including me. This actually reminds me of a story 25 years ago in ESL. The “dumpers’ tried to convince everyone all was safe. It wasn’t.

Thanks again.

With respect,
Russ

From EJB: 

Your help is needed in applying a lot of pressure on the Ohio Department of Health for an immediate public health emergency response to the life-threatening information about the toxic dump Jim Riffle's report identified. They need to know how important this issue is to us, and to know that we're being very aggressive in our response to new information that deadly toxins are slowly killing the inhabitants of East Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland heights, South Euclid and Euclid.

The letter below was emailed from me today to the Ohio EPA's Director, Craig Butler. Former East Cleveland Mayor Darryl Pittman and I have been discussing a legal strategy for the residents. He's an attorney with a background in environmental law. I have meetings with law enforcement authorities scheduled. Wait until I share Mayor Frank Jackson and council's role in this. Here's a link to the council members on the health and human services committee who are responsible for overseeing air pollution control.http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/…/health-and-human-serv…

I've shared a very limited aerial view of the affected area. You know as well as I do that the wind doesn't limit itself to borders or discriminate against us air breathers. My letter starts below. Butler's email is a public record. craig [dot] butler [at] epa [dot] ohio [dot] gov

Ohio EPA Director Craig Butler,

If your spokeswoman wants to claim it took 27 inspections for highly-trained air pollution enforcers to figure out that a construction and demolition debris landfill was not a recycling facility, go for it. It's an answer that only makes Governor John Kasich and Mayor Frank Jackson appear to be more criminally-negligent and derelict in the performance of official air pollution enforcement duties.

Conducting proper inspections and testing isn't the Ohio EPA and City of Cleveland's Division of Air Pollution Control only problem. You were untruthful to U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge and another member of Congress when your failure to perform testing beyond “asbestos” resulted in a false written claim that it didn't exist. Air pollution tests weren't needed for the Ohio EPA's inspectors to know construction and demolition debris landfills are dangerously toxic. Noble Road residents learned that in the Executive Summary they received from Jim Riffle's Auburn Environmental last week.

“It is well known that construction and demolition (C&D) debris processed at similar sites contains tons of waste including concrete, asphalt, metal, wood, fiberglass, and drywall that produce contaminants that damage the environment and cause deleterious health effects.”

So what your spokeswoman, Heidi Griesmeier, confirmed to the Plain Dealer's Jim McCarty is that enforcement officers under yours and Jackson's administrative oversight reported drywall and gypsum co-mingled among what's now an estimated 2 million yards of building and housing materials during 27 visits in two years. On their first visit they were trained to know wet and crushed drywall created hydrogen sulfide gas that creates sulferic acid when mixed with rain, and that the water becomes deadly acidic.

You know that today, as I write, well over 100,000 residents of East Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, South Euclid, Euclid and beyond have been drenched with and breathed in acid rain during these last few warm rainy days. It means you and the Jackson administration have let them be drenched with acid rain for nearly two years despite having knowledge in 27 inspector visits that Ohioans were slowly being poisoned and burned to death inside and outside their bodies.

You've offered the despicably incompetent excuse that inspectors under yours and Jackson's supervision tried vainly during 27 visits to convince Arco employees to separate what's now 4-stories of toxic death. You're claiming the Ohio EPA tried to help Arco officials comply with federal laws you violated by licensing them, and that they never intended to obey. I haven't seen 27 inspection reports. I've only seen 7. Consider this a public records request for all 27. But in the 7 I've seen inspectors explained to you as a reviewing official that Arco's operators were concealing the identities of dumpers by not maintaining dumping records as early as August 2014.

What you should be asking the Ohio Highway Patrol or the Bureau of Criminal Investigations to learn is whether any of the inspectors were bribed. Residents who spoke to state and Jackson administration inspectors said the investigations of the public employees were always brief and perfunctory. They'd go inside the trailer. Hang out for a few minutes and leave.

Think about it. 27 state and Jackson administration inspections. The inspectors downplayed the presence of a pollutant that's “well-known” to exist at construction debris landfills. They choose not to test the “fugitive dust” they detected that's known to contain every toxin Riffle's report identified.

It's my understanding from the Ohio EPA's website that a state-of-the-art testing laboratory is under your supervision, so the tests were easy to order and were not. And after 27 reports and a test concluding that no absestos is on the site, you abruptly decided to close Arco after receiving only a voicemail message from me about a report you claim not to have seen. Have you even thought about asking the Bureau of Criminal Investigations to investigate the inspectors?

Arco owners are alleged to have collected more than $20 million from their illegal activities in two years. The mayor's “girlfriend” contacted me with information that he was giving her $700 a week in cash on a $40,000 a week salary. This is government. You'd be a naïve fool to think that officials might not have been compromised after 27 inspections couldn't reveal that a construction dump wasn't a recycling facility.

I have only two concerns regarding your role in the Noble Road toxic dump you and the Jackson administration licensed. How long will it take to cleanup behind your negligence? Do you intend to alert more than 100,000 residents of East Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, South Euclid, Euclid and beyond that you and the Jackson administration let the air they're breathing be poisoned? If you don't I will.

Only the most criminally-negligent of appointed public officials would not act aggressively at first knowledge of deadly non-compliance to protect human health and lives. You did this same malicious cover-up shit to the residents of Sebring. You have failed your appointing authority in Governor Kasich. You have failed Ohio. You have the failed the residents of East Cleveland and beyond just like you failed the residents of Sebring. Your negligence has brought death and a living hell to our state and you need to resign or be fired.

If Governor Kasich and Attorney General Richard Michael DeWine don't hold you accountable, I know more than 100,000 extremely angered East Cleveland-area residents will call for your criminal prosecution once your death-dealing derelict deeds are fully-known.

And for the record, tell Griesmier not to lie on me to the media again. I spoke to Kurt Princic and Jennifer Kurkos from your office on Tuesday, January 17. They asked for the report and were told it wouldn't be completed until Thursday, January 19. The state didn't pay for it. The state wasn't the client. The residents were the client. The client gets the report first.

Princic got a text from me with an invitation to join the residents and media to hear Riffle's findings. There was no refusal. Princic didn't bother to attend the news conference or communicate with me afterwards. If the information was important, you should have assigned your employee to meet with us. Perhaps he had enough sense to stay away from toxic air. Only a fool would want to breathe that shit.

Get your story together. There's over 100,000 East Cleveland area residents who are coming for your career and they're going to get it. Instead of you being "cheered," the real people are "jeering" you.

Sincerely,
Eric Jonathan Brewer

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From Eric J Brewer :  Pay attention folk. The rats are turning on each other. Cleveland Heights Mayor Cheryl Stephens says here she's concerned about the illegal dump in East Cleveland and blames recalled and disgraced ex-Mayor Gary Norton. I've heard he's now working for Cleveland Clinic.

But Stephens works for the county landbank led by ex-Cleveland councilman and ex-county treasurer James Rokakis who's employees awarded demolition contracts to companies dumping hundreds of toxin-contaminated homes in an illegal dump behind residential homes in East Cleveland. The Ohio EPA's inspections reveal the illegal dump operator wasn't recording the identities of the landbank's contractors. I've been informed that landbank officials are telling demolition contractors to illegally dump on vacant landbank properties all over Cleveland.

Tenacious East Cleveland Citizen Journalist Gerald Strothers Has Died

Posted By Sam Allard on Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:27 pm

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Local activist and citizen journalist Gerald Strothers, who founded the East Cleveland news site 44112News, has died. 

Strothers was a tenacious reporter intent on exposing the corruption and lies of East Cleveland City Hall, in particular those of former Mayor Gary Norton. More recently, Strothers devoted enormous time and energy to reporting on the ongoing environmental catastrophe at the Noble Road dump site. 

Strothers was a relentless documentarian, attending city meetings with camera always out and trained on the action. He was a thorn in the side of elected leaders and he wrote with an informal, no-nonsense panache.

Additionally, he was a valuable and urgent voice on East Cleveland issues, pleading for broader coverage and providing important background for less knowledgeable reporters. He was always generous with me and Eric Sandy as we pursued stories in East Cleveland. Without dedicated local reporters like Strothers, neglected communities like East Cleveland will continue to live in darkness.  Strothers did his work neither for fame nor money, but for the belief that citizens have a right to know what their leaders are up to. He was, as he said, "fighting the good fight." 

On Facebook, it was said that Strothers died of a heart attack. He moved to Pennsylvania last year, he told Eric Sandy, in part because of health problems he'd acquired from proximity to Noble Road. 

Thanks for everything, Jerry. You'll be missed. 

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Make a quick buck - hire contractors who skim by dumping toxins in the BIG Creek watershed that empties in the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie.

Thank you Joe Pagonakis for being the only media person covering these crimes:

http://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cle-police-uncover-massive...

The vast majority of the nearly or more than 1000 homes dumped at the Arco site on Noble Road in East Cleveland came from the Cuyahoga County landbank. I've read where 2097 homes were demolished by the private organization. Demolition contractors the "private" organization awarded contracts to were told by Jim Rokakis and Gus Frangos to use the Noble Road dump in East Cleveland that George Michael Riley was operating. There are demolition contractors who'll say Riley was introduced to them during an open meeting by Frangos.

  Former East Cleveland Mayor Eric J. Brewer:

"I don't think it's a coincidence that Budish said "fuck you" to Rokakis and Frangos getting access to $17 million three days before his hand picked sheriff raided their boy, Riley's, old place. Actually, he's doing the county and taxpayers a favor with the raid and withholding $17 million. Some of the illegal dumps around the city contain landbank houses dumped on landbank land. Rokakis and Frangos are just plain scoundrels."

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/01/state_approves_another_35_mill.html

Armond Budish could care less about the lives of black folks living in East Cleveland.   The evil Cuyahoga Land Bank continues to demolish homes untarnished by the environmental racism of their practices. Where is Mike Riley??  The State of Ohio "hopes" to recoup the tax money spent on this colossal mess?  Fat chance - this is environmental racism by design.