Page 25 - David Devillers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Courtesy of WCPO A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss corruption charges against suspended Cincinnati City Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld. In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Douglass R. Cole batted away a motion filed last December by Sittenfeld's legal team asking to dismiss those charges.  Then-U.S. Attorney David DeVillers alleged in an indictment last November that Sittenfeld accepted $40,000 in checks from undercover FBI agents and a federal informant in exchange for favorable public policy action on a downtown development.  Sittenfeld's attorneys have contested ...

Judge rejects P.G. Sittenfeld’s request to dismiss corruption-related charges Judge rejects P.G. Sittenfeld’s request to dismiss corruption-related charges By Jennifer Edwards Baker and Chris Riva | March 2, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST - Updated March 2 at 5:27 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A federal judge has denied a request from the legal team for suspended city councilmember P.G. Sittenfeld to drop all corruption-related charges. This means the case will proceed and appears headed for a jury trial. “The issue currently before the Court is not whether Alexander (“P.G.”) ...

Former AFRL contractor pleads guilty to taking classified documents Staff report DAYTON —A former contractor with the Air Force Research Lab has pled guilty to illegally taking over 2,500 pages of classified documents. Fairborn resident Izaak Vincent Kemp pled guilty in US District Court Thursday to taking over 100 documents classified at the Secret level from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, according to the office of David DeVillers, U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Ohio. Kemp, 35, was charged on Jan. 25 by a Bill of Information. According to court documents, Kemp was employed as...

New jobless claims mean new cases of unemployment fraud New jobless claims mean new cases of unemployment fraud By Chris Riva | February 25, 2021 at 2:47 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 4:55 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A FOX19 NOW investigation has found that one out of every seven jobless claims that were filed nationwide last week was filed in Ohio. Why? A massive amount of fraud. The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 730,000 jobless claims were filed nationwide for the week ending Feb. 20. 101,895 of those were filed in Ohio. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services believes at...

A Franklin County corrections officer has been charged federally with advertising for and receiving child pornography.