"At first, because he had the bandana on I couldn't tell if it was a male or a female, " Forney told a Pima County Sheriff's detective and an FBI agent.

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"It's really theater of the absurd, " says Edward FitzGerald, a former FBI agent who won the position of Cuyahoga County executive after fed-up residents here disbanded the old county commission form of government under Mr. Dimora.

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Wells Fargo argued that the county should have made service on an executive officer or an appointed agent.

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Lib Dem county councillor Brendan Glynane said one of the those appointed was the commissioner's election agent.

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