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Ex-East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton and aide get probation for torpedoing covert public corruption probe Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com © Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer/The Plain Dealer Former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton, shown here in 2013, received probation after pleading guilty to a federal obstructing justice charge in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Ohio A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton and his former assistant to one year of probation for torpedoing a covert federal bribery investigation into other public officials. Norton, who pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, told his assistant Vanessa Veals about the ongoing investigation after federal authorities interviewed him in September 2018 and warned him not to tell anyone about it. Veals, in turn, told others about the investigation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Rice said in court Thursday that the government terminated its investigation

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