Kingpin for the Bush-Barr's fraudulent global adoption hub in Cleveland to get up to ten years on May 27th
The Kingpin is a Queen.
Margaret Cole Hughes, 74, of 6731 County Line Road, Williamsfield, Ohio in Ashtabula County.
She will be sentenced for fraud and conspiracy on May 27th at 9 a.m. by Cleveland Federal District Judge James Gwin.
https://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/contact-us
Until then, “Maggie the Madame”, remains free on a $20,000 personal signature bond without collateral.
Unless she changes her plea before then to “not guilty”.
Prosecutors have asked for the maximum sentence of:
ten years in jail
restitution of unspecified value
maximum fines of $500,000
Federal Bureau of Prisons’ jail processing fees of $200
Maggie’s five-day trial was supposed to begin Wednesday.
Instead, she copped a plea on Feb. 3rd, a week before her trial was to begin.
Margaret Cole Hughes’ 12-page plea deal is linked here:
Two of Maggie’s co-workers have also pleaded guilty in the European Adoption Consultants (EAC) criminal case.
They were EAC co-conspirators who were scheduled to testify against Cole Hughes starting Wednesday.
By ratting on their boss, they hope to reduce their sentences scheduled to start next month.
They are:
Debra Parris Edwards
Mrs. Robin Herring Longoria
Sentencing hearings are:
March 9th at 1 p.m. for Debra Parris
March 23rd at 11 a.m. for Robin Longoria
No one from the media is covering these hearings.
They are paid to rewrite the Justice Department’s press releases.
And make it look like they were at the courthouse.
The stories are written without ever reading the court file.
It is doubtful that the media has ever entered a federal courtroom.
Or knows where the courthouse is.
One local television station assigned a person whose previous job was at Taco Bell to rewrite the prosecution’s last press release.
In exchange, Camryn Justice gets to cover the Cleveland Cavaliers, a professional basketball team.
Mrs. Cole-Hughes criminal network, European Adoption Consultants (EAC) began 41 years ago in 1991.
EAC was created by:
President George H.W. Bush
Attorney General Bill Barr
Robert E. Hughes, who at the time was Chairman of the Republican Party in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland)
https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2011/11/the_late_cuyahoga_county_repub.html
Hughes’ best friend and family attorney, Roger Synenberg
http://synenberg.com/people/roger-m-synenberg/
The purpose of European Adoption Consultants from day one was to make money for the Robert E. Hughes family.
As payback for helping Bush win Ohio and the Presidency in 1988.
Hughes died in 1991.
The cause of death?
Allegedly it was suicide.
https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2011/11/the_late_cuyahoga_county_repub.html
Maggie married Bob’s son, Robert E. Hughes II.
FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. assigned Margaret’s stepson, Robert E. Hughes III, an FBI agent, to investigate her case.
At the time of his transfer to Cleveland, Hughes was in the FBI’s counterintelligence unit working for:
Andy McCabe
Peter Strzok
Lisa Page
After working on his mother’s case, the FBI promoted Margaret’s son to run the FBI’s District Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3765897/EAC-Lawsuit.pdf
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was its Attorney General, he filed a lawsuit to recover adoption fees for those who were cheated out of their money.
The result?
DeWine was unable to find any:
claimants
children
proof of 8000 international adoptions
His office was able to recover $260,000 out of $200 million that defense attorneys said was collected by Marilyn Cole Hughes for international adoptions.
Subpoenas for financial records were issued to two local banks:
KeyBank
Huntington Bank
However, most of the money was passed through Strongsville Savings Bank, which was bought out by Fifth Third.
Their records were never subpoenaed.
Without claimants, the money went to the General Fund of the State of Ohio.
Margaret Cole Hughes paid a penalty of $39,000.
Was the case fixed?
https://cpdocket.cp.cuyahogacounty.us/CV_CaseInformation_Docket.aspx?q=uU888BtJFuyJ21ziaMFKIg2
The Judge assigned to the case was Joan Syenberg on June 1st, 2017.
Her husband is Roger Synenberg.
He has been Margaret Cole Hughes’ attorney from 1991 to Sept. 20th, 2020.
https://cp.cuyahogacounty.us/court-resources/judges/judge-joan-synenberg/
A different judge was assigned the case on Sept. 7th, 2017.
The court record was imaged today:
Police record search of Strongsville City Police, Ohio about European Adoption Consultants (EAC) turned up nothing.
No one from EAC was ever arrested by Strongsville Police.
Thomas Perciak is Mayor of Strongsville.
Before that, he was President of Strongsville Savings Bank.
Who hires the Chief of Police in Strongsville?
The Mayor.
In Cleveland, the theft of 90 dirt bikes since January last year is more important than prosecuting people for murder and selling:
children
illegal weapons
illegal drugs
According to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Michael O’Malley.
His office is in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland started defunding its police on July 11th, 2011.
Here is the story:
According to defense attorneys, there are over two million documents and 41 discs and thumb drives.
It also includes over 200,000 emails between Margaret’s companies and attorneys throughout the world.
Defense attorneys lost an appeal to have them thrown out.
On Nov. 12th, Judge Gwin rules the emails were evidence and admissible.
His ruling was sustained by the Sixth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Jan. 26th.
The evidence in the Cole Hughes case exceeds all the books in the Library of Congress.
What is in the Library of Congress?
24,863,177 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system
15,039,990 items in the nonclassified print collections, including books in large type and raised characters, incunabula (books printed before 1501), monographs and serials, music, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports, and other printed material
130,214,985 items in the nonclassified (special) collections, including:
4,233,807 audio materials (discs, tapes, talking books, and other recorded formats)
73,908,819 manuscripts
5,617,774 maps
17,376,100 microforms
1,849,175 moving images
8,135,588 items of sheet music
17,075,339 visual materials, including:
14,840,703 photographs
109,796 posters
685,938 prints and drawings
1,438,902 broadsides, photocopies, nonpictorial information, etc.
2,018,383 other items (including machine-readable items)
https://www.loc.gov/about/general-information/
Prosecutors have returned Margaret Cole Hughes’ evidence to her.
She can destroy it.
Unless other federal and state court jurisdictions file charges against the ringleaders from European Adoption Consultants.
Their plea deals only apply to the Cleveland Federal District Court.
Here is what Judge James Gwin told:
Margaret Cole Hughes
Debra Parris Edwards
Mrs. Robin Herring Longoria
There are 574 named defendants in 18 federal districts related to this case.
None has been charged with selling children.
Details are in this story:
What happened to Dorah Mirembe, the fourth defendant in the Cole Hughes case?
The FBI made no effort to arrest her.