Councilman Wendell Young to be arraigned Friday, pleads not guilty
Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young entered a plea of not guilty on Thursday. Young, a Democrat, was indicted earlier this month with the felony tampering charge and is facing up to three years in prison. In a statement, Patrick Hanley, the special prosecutor who has been investigating Young for more than a year, said that between January and October of 2018, Young "knowingly and with the purpose to defraud, destroyed text messages that belonged to a government entity." Last week, Hanley told Fox 19 he plans to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to initiate suspension proceedings ag...