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Across multiple generations, the Celebrezze family built an enduring political dynasty that has wielded power and influence from Cleveland to Washington, D.C.
Since the 1920s, Celebrezze family members have occupied an extraordinary sweep of public offices, from Cleveland mayor and state attorney general to the state Supreme Court, appellate courts and county benches.
In 2009, Leslie Ann Celebrezze became the family’s first woman to run and the first to win an election when voters tapped her to replace her father as a Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court judge.
The family dynasty took another turn after she pleaded GUILTY on Wednesday to tampering with public records for creating a false court entry to steer work to Mark Dottore, a longtime family friend whom she’d repeatedly appointed to oversee lucrative divorce cases.
Celebrezze said little during the hearing and declined comment to reporters as she left the courtroom with her attorney.
Visiting Judge Mark Wiest from Wayne County did not immediately set a date for Celebrezze’s sentencing on the third-degree felony charge, which carries a potential prison sentence of up to three years.
Prosecutors said they will not request prison time, leaving that decision to Wiest.
The judge said a lesser jail sentence is a possibility and that he will rely on a pre-sentence investigation to help guide his decision.
“I’m not saying [a jail sentence] is going to happen, but I want that option,” Wiest told Celebrezze.
The conviction comes more than two years after The Marshall Project – Cleveland first detailed Celebrezze’s relationship with Dottore.
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