In Salina(Syracuse), NY, once, I walked into a restaurant...beautiful linens and wood-paneled walls...three heavy guys smoking cigars at one table and no one else there.  We were politely ushered out.  This was my first realization that the mob constructs a front.  I truly believe that Cleveland's CDCs are ultimately run by organized crime.  Some of the folks who work there don't even know it.  But, a lot of them do or figure it out pretty fast.  I remember attending a CDBG event downtown in the eighties when George Voinovich was mayor.  I thought it odd that he broke down at the presentation (he cries a lot), but now I think it had to do with ethics.  I know that the Land Bank is now just a gigantic CDC--a "quasi-governmental" organization that has no real oversight.  I was kicked off the TWDC board for asking too many questions in the 1990s and for demanding some accountability.  Just like I was ushered out of that "restaurant" in New York.