More Orthodox Reform - After the Kohanim, the Levites were Targeted

In the Mishna following the previous post  http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/orthodoxy-is-reform.html , a very strange thing is said:

Sotah 9:10

"(10) Yohanan the High Priest brought to an end the confession of the tithes (see Deuteronomy 26:13-15) [since Ezra punished the Levites who did not come up from Bavel by enacting that henceforth tithes should be given to the priests, thus one could not declare; I have given to the Levite]. ..."

see https://outorah.org/p/12978

It is claimed by  the Bartenura commentary that Ezra punished the Levites, and that the “High Priest” of the Pharisees abolished the tithes confession commanded in Devarim.

There is a factual problem to all this.  

Ezra 8:

18 And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.'

30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

It is explicitly stated that Ezra succeeded in finding sufficient numbers of Levites for the Temple service. This contradicts the claim of the rabbanite mishnah, which says he punished them, and took away their duties from the Temple service.

What actually happened, is that the rabbanite crony, “Yochanan” who was installed as a supposed High Priest, had already been part of the scheme destroy the Priesthood, and then turns his attention to the Levites. In other words, to totally rid the temple of the righteous ministers, the Pharisees also had to dispose of the Levites. So they made up a false account of what Ezra had allegedly done, to “justify” the removal of the Levites, and the annulment of another Torah commandment.