Imprisoned Ohio politician moved to West Virginia facility

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former Cleveland-area politician imprisoned in a corruption probe has been moved to a prison in West Virginia after spending two years in a California prison.

Jimmy Dimora, the former Cuyahoga County commissioner, is serving 28 years in prison for corruption- and bribery-related charges. Cleveland.com reports the 60-year-old Dimora was recently moved to the Beckley federal correctional institution in Beaver, W.Va. The prison has a medium-security facility with an adjacent minimum-security camp.

Dimora had been housed at a prison in California’s Mojave Desert since 2014. A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in an email that Dimora was moved recently, but he refused to give any reason for the move.

Dimora has maintained his innocence.