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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson expressed sympathy to the family of Aisha Fraser, but he refused to apologize for hiring her ex-husband, despite his violent attack on her four years ago.
A turbulent divorce case that began after Lance Mason assaulted his wife, culminated in the stabbing death of the 45-year-old Shaker Heights teacher Saturday morning.
Mason, a former rising star in the Democratic Party, is now in the Cuyahoga County Jail. He was charged on Monday with felonious assault, but is likely facing murder charges.
He was a common pleas judge in 2014 when he violently attacked his wife inside their car and in full view of their two young daughters. Fraser suffered severe facial injuries that required reconstructive surgery.
Last year, Mason was hired as Cleveland’s minority business development director for $45,000 a year. Jackson was criticized then for the hire and on Monday, he was again defending hiring Mason.
Mason’s law license was indefinitely suspended last year by the Ohio Supreme Court. He served nine months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting Fraser.
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