Bloomberg Law
May 7, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

Cleveland Joins Amazon HQ2 Bidders Refusing to Disclose Incentives

Alex Ebert

Cleveland is refusing to disclose its losing tax incentive package rejected in the contest for Amazon.com Inc.’s massive $5 billion second headquarters, despite at least two public records lawsuits demanding the details.

An Ohio Court of Claims special master last week recommended that the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency disclose its bid and pay a suing journalist’s attorney fees. The city of Cleveland is defendant in a similar public records suit by a local ABC news affiliate. Despite all this, the city told Bloomberg Tax May 4 that it won’t disclose the records it sent Amazon in the competition to ...

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