From Cincinnati
Report uncovers ‘power, money, sex’
Dann: Inspector doesn’t like me
By STEPHEN MAJORS
Associated Press Writer
December 22, 2008
Former Attorney General Marc Dann ran a vulgar and unprofessional office and misused campaign funds to make lavish payments to friends and family, the state’s government watchdog said Monday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Attorney General Marc Dann ran a vulgar and unprofessional office and misused campaign funds to make lavish payments to friends and family, the state’s government watchdog said Monday in releasing the results of a six-month investigation.
Dann, a Democrat elected in 2006 on an anti-corruption platform, resigned in May amid a sexual harassment scandal in his office that included his admission that he had an affair with an employee.
The report by Inspector General Tom Charles said Dann hired a coterie of young women dubbed “the Dannettes” who were so unqualified and unprofessional in their dress and conduct that an office assistant was assigned to conduct etiquette training.
Dann said in a conference call with reporters that Charles’ report was littered with innuendo instead of facts and didn’t document any substantive cases in which he had broken the law.
He also said the report was written with a clear bias that had grown from Dann’s criticism of Charles for his handling of past investigations.
“He has never forgiven me for that,” Dann said. “We have never had a good relationship from the moment I took the attorney general’s office.”
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