Ohio State Auditor

But if a Ohio Department of Education and Workforce investigation finds out that, no, the board can't fire her, then I tend to think that pretty much tells you where the problem lies in this whole thing.

Uh, DiFabbo got overpaid $54,000, and his suspicious, shall we say, uh, contentious, disputed raises, uh, were forwarded to the Auditor of State and the Ohio Ethics Commission.

I don't think Ms. Hale has had any of her behavior referred to the Auditor of State.

But she's gonna keep her job, and DiFabbo's gonna keep his money, and Columbus City Schools is going to continue to be dysfunctional because that's just kind of their MO.

Now, as I said at the outset, is somebody trying to kill our Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, who or, or whoever opens his mail? US Postal Service inspectors, um, seized a piece of mail addressed to the Secretary of State's office on, what would that be, Monday? Uh, because the package contained a white powder.

Now, this begs another question that I've been asking and I'm waiting for an answer.

So Jordan, Lacey, Channel 6, Channel 4, anybody, want to go find out if he told Chris Long told Erica Crawley that she didn't have to pay for her parking tickets because she was a county employee, how many other county employees for years were having their tickets reimbursed by the county taxpayer and just haven't been caught and forced to reimburse the county? I think this makes for a juicy audit by Keith Faber in the Ohio State Auditor's Office to find out how many tickets across the vast array of Franklin County employees have been just parking wherever they feel like it because they don't have to pay out of their own pocket for their parking tickets.

The employee handbook applies to employees, according to this story.

Yes, of course it would or it wouldn't be the employee handbook.

But let's start with Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley, shall we? Who is now under investigation by a guy who told me a week ago Friday, and told you if you were in attendance at our event at Genoa Christian Fellowship, that he enjoys putting public officials in handcuffs and walking them out of their offices because they have committed fraud.

That'd be Keith Faber, your current Ohio auditor, your, I hope, future attorney general.

Keith Faber and the Ohio Auditor's office are now [laughs] investigating Erica Crawley, the Franklin County commissioner, probably both for her free tickets that she took to a July 2nd concert at Old Crew Stadium, and for, yes, the 14 parking tickets that totaled up...

Well, wait.

No, I got my numbers mixed up.

Well, I can tell you who's not winning, back to Ohio, uh, one of the bigger stories of the week.

A Jefferson County grand jury indicted three people Wednesday in what Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber calls the theft of about $20 million from Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville.

The 24-count indictment names Michael Parrack, Nicole Rowe Colclasure, and Michael Geghan, the college's former chief financial officer and president.

Charges include engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, aggravated theft of one and a half million dollars or more, theft in office, bribery, money laundering.