AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – Former Cleveland City Councilman Kenneth Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court Friday for orchestrating two schemes to steal nearly $200,000 in taxpayer money from two federal programs.
In July, a jury convicted Johnson, 75, on 15 counts including two counts of conspiracy to commit federal program theft, six counts of federal program theft, five counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns, one count of witness tampering and one count of falsification of records in a federal investigation.
