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GuidesArch CityHome & StyleDiningFeaturesWeddingsLegals The Teacher and the Student: Mike Coleman and Shannon Hardin Mike Coleman is the most successful Black political leader in Columbus history. His career provided a road map for his protégé, Shannon Hardin. Then the world changed. Columbus Monthly The two men stand next to one another, each dressed in blue suit jackets and white shirts, standard politician attire. One is the 66-year-old former mayor of Columbus, the first Black man to fill...

One artist who knows all too well what having Covid-19 can feel like is Luke Jerram. He recovered from the virus two months ago but is still feeling the effects. ‘My sense of smell is shot, I have tinnitus and still feel tired at times,’ he says. Since 2004, Jerram has worked on a series of glass-blown sculptures of disease-causing viruses; during his convalescence, he decided that his next artwork would focus on the Covid-19 vaccines, as a tribute to the scientists and medical teams who h...

Federal judge ignores prison recommendations in convention center bribery scandal sentence Bill Bush, The Columbus Dispatch © Doral Chenoweth/Dispatch file photo The Greater Columbus Convention Center has been a landmark on North High Street since it opened in 1993. A Pickerington man who participated in a bribery scheme with former Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority member John Raphael over a multi-million-dollar food vendor contract was sentenced Tuesday to si...

A Pickerington man who participated in a bribery scheme with former Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority member John Raphael over a multi-million-dollar food vendor contract was sentenced Tuesday to six months home confinement, community service and probation for the next four years. Rodney L. Myers, 50, who had pleaded guilty to federal programs bribery in November 2019, was facing federal sentencing guidelines that called for up to two years in prison for his role in steering the ...

Credit WCBE Files Former Columbus City Hall lobbyist John Raphael has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges for taking bribes from a food vendor in exchange for landing a favorable contract with the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Sentencing is pending. Raphael is a former Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority board member. Prosecutors say he used confidential information to charge clients 144 thousand dollars in bribes. In 2016, Columbus Mayor Andy Ginthers friend was sen...

Former Columbus City Hall lobbyist John Raphael pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Columbus Wednesday morning to a single count related to accepting a bribe in 2015 from a firm seeking a Greater Columbus Convention Center food contract while he sat on the centers board. Raphael pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King to one count of honest services wire fraud. King asked Raphael if he understood that he faced up to 20 years in federal prison, followed by up to three years...

File Former Columbus City Hall lobbyist John Raphael pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges on Wednesday. Federal investigators allege Raphael accepted bribes from a food vendor in exchange for securing a favorable contract with the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Raphael served on the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority board and operations committee, and as treasurer. In these roles, the complaint reads, Raphael had access to confidential information that he was prohib...

Updated: 1:05 PM EST February 3, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Columbus lobbyist could spend up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in a bribery case. The U.S. Attorneys Office said John Raphael entered a guilty plea Wednesday to honest services wire fraud in connection to a contract with the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Raphael was the treasurer for the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority (FCCFA) and also served on its board. That agency ran the ...

John Raphael, the former influential Columbus City Hall lobbyist and one-time political ally to several high-ranking local Democrats, has again agreed to plead guilty to federal corruption charges for billing clients "success fees" that were really intended as bribes in return for securing public contracts, court documents show. And for the second time since 2016, Raphael is facing prison — this time for up to 20 years — for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme he devised and carried ...

Skipper Bocco out again as Tanzania faces Namibia Tanzania Taifa Stars will have to face Namibia Brave Warriors Saturday in their second game of the Total CHAN, Cameroon 2020 without their inspirational skipper John Raphael Bocco. After losing their opening match 2-0 to Zambia with Bocco watching from the stands, the bad news continued as the striker is set to miss the second game too due to injury. In the absence of Bocco, coach Etienne Ndairagije has made it clear that he has o...