CLEVELAND -- A woman linked to a corruption investigation in Cuyahoga County has been found dead in her home in Cleveland.
Fifty-year-old Rosemary Vinci was a former strip club manager who had become a county employee and ally of Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo.
Dimora and Russo have been subjects of an FBI corruption probe of county government, and their offices were raided by agents in July. Both have denied any wrongdoing.
County coroner's office spokesman Powell Caesar says circumstances of Vinci's death were not known Monday night and that an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.
Russo aide Destin Ramsey says he does not know how Vinci died, but says she had missed work recently because of illness.
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