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Prosecutors: Motion to dismiss Sittenfeld bribery case 'has no merit' Feds say motion 'advances several erroneous legal arguments' WCPO and last updated 2021-01-26 10:32:50-05 CINCINNATI — Prosecutors argued Monday that Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld's motion to dismiss federal bribery charges lacks merit and "advances several erroneous legal arguments." Federal officials alleged that Sittenfeld promised to deliver council votes in 2018 supporting a development deal at the former Convention Place Mall in exchange for four $5,000 contributions to his political action fund. Sit...

Column: What will Biden presidency mean for Ohio pols? Thomas Suddes More than 10,000 Ohioans died during Donald Trump’s presidency thanks in part to his administration’s incompetence in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Were anyone to draw up a profit-and-loss statement analyzing how Ohio fared during America’s 45th presidency, that’d be the single greatest loss the Buckeye State suffered. On the profit side, ask the many Ohioans who remain fans of the former president. More than 2.8 million Ohioans voted for the Trump-Pence ticket in 2016, more than 3.1 million in 2020. Evidently, re...

Credit Dan Konik The U.S. Attorney in charge of investigations into both a 61 million dollar bribery scandal involving the former Ohio House Speaker and corruption on Cincinnati City Council will be leaving that job. But Ohio’s senior U.S. Senator says those aren’t reasons to keep him in that office. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) says U.S. attorneys usually change with presidential administrations. So he’s issuing a call to applicants to replace David DeVillers, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio appointed by President Trump in 2019. DeVillers replaced Benjamin Glassman, wh...

Fraud may be rampant among Ohio pandemic unemployment claims: Capitol Letter Updated Jan 22, 2021; Posted Jan 22, 2021 The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' homepage has a place for people to report fraudulent unemployment claims under their names. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.) Facebook Share Rotunda Rumblings False claims: More than half of Ohio’s 1.4 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims (which total $7.8 billion in payments) have been flagged for fraud, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said Thursday. As Jeremy Pelzer explains, one likely reason is that, until rec...

Biden administration expected to replace U.S. attorney overseeing House Bill 6 investigation Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021 David DeVillers, seen left in a 2014 file photo, is expected to be replaced by the Biden administration as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. DeVillers has risen to statewide prominence as he's overseen a federal corruption probe into the Ohio Statehouse. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)AP Facebook Share COLUMBUS, Ohio – The U.S. attorney overseeing the massive House Bill 6 corruption investigation is being replaced under the Biden administrat...