Cuyahoga County is going to be financially drained by the MEDCON just as Harrisburg Pa has been financially drained by a “trash incinerator”.
MEDCON is a morbid PARASITE on Cuyahoga County.
When will County Executive FitzGerald take action to nullify the odious MEDCON “deal” with MMPI?
The sooner the better.
Here’s Why:
Harrisburg is bankrupt for two reasons.
1. The Harrisburg City Council was conned/ ignorantly believed that Harrisburg could own and operate a trash incinerator and make money.
The Harrisburg City Council knew there were no bid bonds for the incinerator rehab and signed the fatal contract anyway.
Cuyahoga County ex County Commissioners Hagan, Dimora, and Lawson-Jones:
1. “bought”, for almost a billion dollars over 20 years, the totally (data and statistically) unsupported/unsupportable medical equipment display and medical equipment “conference” center – with the phantasmagoric claim that the MEDCON would be an economic engine for Cuyahoga County.
2. Hagan, Dimora, and Lawson Jones very intentionally did not:
A. put the sales tax hike financing the project out for public vote as required under State of Ohio procurement law,
B. did not put the project out for public bid, instead dealing secretly and privately with Chris Kennedy and MMPI (the company Kennedy headed), a Vornado subsidiary,
C. did not obtain a bid bond, performance bond or payment bond from Chris Kennedy, MMPI, or Vornado guaranteeing the results of MEDCON.
Recently Dimora is alleged by the FBI to have operated
a RICO enterprise from the Cuyahoga County Offices – and Dimora was the one Commissioner who had the most behind-the-scene contact with MMPI (Dimora's contact with MMPI was arranged by Hagan, so Hagan is very suspect as well), Chris Kennedy and crew, and Squire Sanders' Fred-the-Fixer Nance.
County Executive FitzGerald has the fiduciary obligation to declare the MMPI “deal”
odious debt and
move to nullify the Cuyahoga County MEDCON contract.
The sooner, the better for Cuyahoga citizens.