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Toledo Water Commissioner/Pastor Retires Amid Lewd Text Messaging Affair

[Publisher's note: This article contains graphic sexual content.]

 

TOLEDO,Ohio – When the city's water commissioner, Willie Perryman, Jr., suddenly retired on Sept. 23 from his $65,000-a-year job, there was little surprise at City Hall.

Perhaps Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and his top aides, Tom Kroma and Robert Reinbolt, encouraged him to leave.  Or maybe Perryman, the longtime pastor at Jerusalem Baptist Church on Dorr Street, had had enough after a tumultuous six weeks.

In his brief memo to Finkbeiner, submitted the day he retired, Perryman, 49, said he was leaving his job to devote more time to his ministry.

 

Not addressed by Perryman, the Finkbeiner administration or anyone else was the real reason behind the departure.

 

City documents obtained by The Newsmeister.com reveal that last summer Perryman sent an unspecified number of shockingly explicit sexual text messages to a temporary clerk in the city's Neighborhoods Department.

 

The employee, 40-year-old Tamara Turner Fuseini, turned seven of the messages over to her bosses, who alerted city officials, triggering an investigation. 

 

Mayor's Wife Breaks Arm In Fall; Surgery Scheduled for Friday

TOLEDO, Ohio - Ice and the city's First Lady have a thing going on - a thing she could do without.

For the second time in a decade, Amy Finkbeiner took a spill on a slick surface, breaking her arm. The most recent incident occurred Christmas Eve on the front steps of the South Toledo home she shares with her husband, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

The break, which she described as a distal radius fracture, has not healed well. Finkbeiner will have surgery Friday morning at the University of Toledo Medical Center, where she manages the Volunteer Services Department.

"It's pretty bad," she said during a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon from her office. "I'm in quite a bit of pain."

Toledo Commissioner Suspended in Tuition Reimbursement Flap

TOLEDO, Ohio - An under-the-radar suspension of the city's sewage and drainage services commissioner more than three months ago has left a number of city employees steamed and a lengthy, curious trail of unanswered questions.

Edward Moore was suspended without pay from June 2-6 after he received more than $5,000 from the city for classes he took at the University of Toledo, where he qualified for free tuition because his wife works there, according to documents obtained from the city by The Newsmeister.com.

Moore first collected money from the city in January, 2007 - one of three payments he received over 12 months. The issue did not surface until a city clerk uncovered the error early last spring. Moore returned the money about two months later.