Judge to dismiss Strongsville child slavery case
Cleveland Federal District Judge Christopher Boyko threw out the evidence Friday in the Margaret Cole Hughes criminal conspiracy child slavery case.
Miss Cole-Hughes is the former Director of European Adoption Consultants (EAC) in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Strongsville.
The case will be dismissed as soon as today without objection from federal prosecutors.
Two other of Miss Margaret’s former employees remain within Boyko’s jurisdiction.
They are Mrs. Robin Longoria and Debra Parris Edwards.
The charges of all three defendants are in these documents posted by the Justice Department:
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/cases/margaret-cole
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/file/1308906/download
The other 242 defendants are in federal district courts scattered throughout the country and Uganda.
It hides the scope of the Cole-Hughes-Bush criminal network from the public.
The Judge gave no rationale for his decision to throw out all the evidence.
It includes two million documents, discs, and thumb drives defense attorneys said amounted to more data than is held in the Library of Congress.
Nearly all of it came from the State Department who closed down EAC on May 28th last year.
The Judge summarized his decision in two lines in Pacer, the official record of the federal judiciary.
It is imaged below.
The case started on Aug. 20th, 2019.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors admitted that EAC netted $200 million from 8000 adoptions since 1991.
What happened to the children?
What happened to the money?
Money laundering charges have been blocked by Melissa Hodgman at the SEC.
Her husband is Peter Strzok.
Defense attorneys admitted Thursday that their client, Margaret Cole-Hughes, has four other companies still operating.
They are:
American International Adoption Agency Inc.
the Boston Group
Eurotrust Inc.
Project Sunshine
Miss Margaret may own or work with other businesses and charities.
The public will never know.
The Justice Department has suppressed them.
Most of the remaining 201 defendants are alleged to have sold illegal drugs like meth and cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel.
Most cases remain pending.
Sixteen have been dismissed.
The cases also involved a Somali gang of 30 who rented 12-year-old girls by the week to long-haul truckers since Jan. 2001.
Their routes were Minneapolis to Columbus to Nashville and back again.
Mrs. Robin Herring Longoria pleaded guilty to single counts of conspiracy and fraud on Aug. 30th, 2019.
She worked for EAC and BlackRock Financial in Dallas, Texas.
Her attorney, Steve Jumes, used to work for Robert Mueller.
Mueller is the former FBI Director and Special Prosecutor.
Her sentencing has been delayed six times since Aug. 30th, 2019.
It is now scheduled for Aug. 25th at 10 a.m. in Cleveland Federal Court.
The next EAC defendant to be sentenced is Donald Doehrer.
He has pleaded guilty to making and selling pornography of 12-year-old girls.
If he shows up for court in Manhattan on July 12th at 2:30 p.m.
Like Longoria, Doehrer’s case was moved out of Dallas by Bill Barr.
He was the Attorney General until Dec. 20th.
Barr and Mueller have been best friends for over 40 years.
The details of the Doehrer case is in this story: