CLEVELAND — Investigators have seized several items from Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish's director of communications.
According to court documents, state investigators served a search warrant on Budish's offices for the computer and other belongings of Eliza Wing.
In addition to Wing's computer, investigators took all of Wing's notebooks, all content on her Microsoft OneDrive and copies of video recordings made Feb. 15 in which Budish discussed the Feb. 14 search of his offices.
In a video posted to the county's YouTube page, Budish denied any wrongdoing and called the investigation a "political stunt." Wing also told WKYC, "This is a clear case of attempted intimidation. I am doing my work and will continue to do so."
During last Thursday's search, FBI and BCI agents searched the eighth floor of the county building, taking five boxes of files, two hard drives (one belonging to Budish) and an envelope of "miscellaneous materials" from the scene.
On Wednesday, a grand jury subpoena was served to the county seeking "the complete email accounts belonging to Budish and several of his top executives, as well as the phone records of former Corrections Director Ken Mills. Earlier this month, Mills was one of three Cuyahoga County officials to plead not guilty to charges part of an ongoing corruption investigation.
A year ago, public corruption investigators subpoenaed records regarding high-level county employees and Hyland Software, a county contractor based in Westlake. At that time, Budish denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of any corruption.