A6 The Plain Dealer cleveland.com Wednesday, November 22, 2017 METRO Attempted-theft charge Ex-police commission exec accused of scam CORY SHAFFER A former New York prosecutor who briefly as the executive the Cleveland Police Commission is with forging travel that she submitted to land to be reimbursed penses that prosecutors say A Cuyahoga County grand she never paid. jury handed up a 10-count Nicole S. Junior is accused indictment Tuesday morning City of trying to defraud the city charging Junior with tamperserved out of more than $7,000 by ing with records, telecommudirector of forging receipts from a New nications fraud, forgery and Community York moving company that attempted theft. charged investigators say is registered She is set for a Dec. 7 arinvoices to her mother's boyfriend, raignment.
Cleve- according to the Cuyahoga A message seeking comfor ex- County prosecutor's office. ment left at Junior's New York law firm was not imme- was mandated in the settlediately returned. ment, known as a consent Cleveland hired Junior in decree, to be a voice for the March to oversee day-to-day community and give policy operations of the Cleveland's input to police officials. Community Police Commis- The executive director sion. The commission was position is the only paid pocreated after the city reached sition on the commission, a settlement with the Justice which is made up of volunDepartment to reform its Po- teers from Cleveland's police lice Department.
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Member Repayment days. 16.70% fixed APR, effective as of July Cale munity organizations. Junior was a rising star in Brooklyn's legal circles. She was a former chair of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association's Criminal Law Section and Acting Deputy Executive Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives for New York's civilian police review board. She was hired in March, and was set to start April 17, according to a news release from the commission.
Prosecutors say she moved to Cleveland, where she rented a fully furnished apartment while she worked on the commission. She then submitted to the city two separate Paypal invoices for moving expenses, prosecutors say. The city cut her a check for $7,256.41, but an employee in the Finance Department noticed inconsistencies in her invoices and flagged it to an auditor, prosecutors said. The check was never mailed to Junior and she never actually collected the money. Investigators determined the invoices were forged and listed a company that belonged to her mother's boyfriend, prosecutors said.
The company's address was listed as the same address in Brooklyn where Junior lived. "This individual placed a bet that she was smarter than the city of Cleveland auditors, and she lost," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said. "She now has return to Cleveland to pay debt." Junior abruptly left her position after she learned about the investigation. She returned to New York and started her own private law practice, which she describes Facebook as "a boutique practice that specializes in criminal, family and matrimonial law." The commission hired Jason Goodrick, who was then-director of emergency management at Case Western Reserve University to take Junior's place. The police intelligence unit investigated the case.
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A 2017, subject to change. Interest starts accruing when the loan closes: A Cleveland police officer has been indicted on charges of sexual battery and intimidation of a crime victim after authorities say she had sex with a 13-year-old boy several times in 2015 while she worked as a teacher's aide at an elementary school. Maria Velez, 24, is also charged with attempted tampering with evidence. Velez has been free on a $10,000 bond since her Oct. 20 arrest.
She is scheduled for a Dec. 7 arraignment. She was suspended without pay from her job as a patrol officer in the Police Department's 5th District following her arrest last month. The accusations stem from when Velez worked as an instructional aide at Clark Elementary School. She had sex with a 13-year-old student at the school between March and December 2015, according to court records.
Velez resigned from her school job in 2015 and joined the Cleveland Police Department. Detectives in Cleveland's internal affairs unit began investigating the claims in September, court records say. When Velez learned about the probe, she called the boy and tried to persuade him to lie, prosecutors say. Cleveland Municipal School District spokeswoman Roseann Canfora said last month that the district was unaware of any accusations of impropriety on Velez's part while she was employed. INFINITY for MARVIN: REPLACEMENT WINDOWS A Built for.
