CLEVELAND, Ohio — Disgraced former Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson was released from prison on Friday, officials said.
Johnson, 79, served more than four years of a six-year prison sentence for orchestrating schemes in which he stole from the city and federal government while representing the Buckeye-Shaker Square neighborhood on council.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy confirmed Johnson’s prison release. A message left with Johnson’s attorney, Myron Watson, was not immediately returned…