Cancerous Mahoning County

[Towntalk]

Going as far back as 1900 Youngstown was seen as the most corrupt city in the State. Walk down North Phelps street and what did you have? Places where gambling was available. Walk down West Commerce? Houses of Prostitution and it wasn't unusual for one of the inmates with little more than a smile on. There were more saloons downtown than a person could shake a stick at. (All this was between 1900 and 1910.) Long before the Mob turned the city into Murder Town USA, there was organized crime ... the Greeks vs. the Italians for control of gambling and prostitution. We know our history between 1940 to when Traficant went to the slammer so I shant rehash that but just ask was there ever a single moment when Youngstown wasever free from the stigma of corruption? I say NO!

[AllanY2525]

When prosecutors announced that the trials would take place in Cuyahoga County, it was
immediately clear as to why.... better chances for conviction(s) outside the local "sphere of
influence"

[Towntalk]

If what the State Attorney General has been saying is true, Mahoning County is so corrupt that he can not trust any court here to conduct a fair trial for all those local cancer ridden public officials and those private citizens of wealth that have been buying political favour, and has to have a trial in a county that is equally corrupt, but it's their corruption and not ours.

Some of you ask why this is a one party town ... oh you blind foolish souls ... you nieve children ... are you so blind that you can't see that control of vertually our entire county has been under the control of one wealthy family and vertually every city, village and township is under their thumb? There is not a single untainted public official in all of Mahoning County, and even if DeWine is able to rid us of the current lot, new ones are waiting in the wings to take up where the current lot leave off. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way in the future, and nothing any of you say will change that fact of life here in Mahoning County ... the 219 year old maggot infested sesspool of Ohio.