And now, all that’s left of this sideshow is to find out how much time Dimora will receive in a federal pen and if the government will go for a knock out punch and render him financially impotent.

Now that former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora has been found guilty on 33 or 34 corruption in office related charges leveled against him by the federal government, the county can find some closure.

It has been a long haul from the time that federal agents knocked on Dimora’s door on Sept. 15, 2010 until the time a federal jury in Akron last Friday announced its verdict.

It marks the end of a career politician that was by any means considered the undisputed boss of county politics.

During the salacious court proceedings, jurors and the public were shown how Dimora had sex on demand from call girls; both locally and out of town. We heard testimony about pricey feasts in fancy restaurants at no expense to the former politician.

And who could forget the Rolex watch is so desperately wanted but didn’t want to pay the full freight on it?

The icing on the cake, however, was the hundreds of thousands of dollars that flowed through his hands like water in the form of free or deeply discounted improvements to his $438,000 home in Independence.

Jimmy Dimora came a long way from working in the Bedford Heights sanitation department to unseating a popular and long standing mayor of the suburb.

He honed his political skills as a small suburban mayor and parlayed his jovial demeanor and management style to rise to the heights of power in a county that had seen better days.

And now, all that’s left of this sideshow is to find out how much time Dimora will receive in a federal pen and if the government will go for a knock out punch and render him financially impotent.

It’s a sad story for the county.  It’s a sad story for Dimora’s family.  In the end, greed got in the way of honest public service.

It is the legacy of Jimmy Dimora.