As the Cuyahoga County corruption scandal lurches toward its exciting prison-jumper and jail-cell conclusion, we’re learning more and more by the day about the crooked practices of our fearless county leaders.

Much of that comes from paperwork filed by the Feds in recent weeks, including the 138-page indictment of County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and the 58-page opus on former County Auditor Frank Russo. They are a dense slog indeed, thicker even than the “Pizza” section of Dimora’s take-out menu folder. But the determined reader is rewarded with a treasure trove of delightfully damning wiretap conversation buried within the text — classic comedy that runs the gamut from garden-variety corruption to really $#&*@ stupid corruption.

Now, as a public service to you, dear reader, we offer the uncensored highlights of those conversations: all the stupidity, damning evidence, sex, bullshitting, and jaw-dropping admissions from the mouths of the star players themselves, courtesy of your friends at the FBI.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/fbi-wiretap-uncensored/Content?oid=2120970