Josh Sweigart
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Josh Sweigart investigates government waste, fraud and abuse as a member of the I-Team.
His stories focus on government spending in southwest Ohio, as well as the statehouse and U.S. Capitol.
Sweigart has won several awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press Society of Ohio.
He has worked for Cox Media Group since 2007, and in addition to writing for the Dayton Daily News has covered Clark County government for the Springfield News-Sun and Butler County government for the Hamilton JournalNews and Middletown Journal.
He also collaborates on I-Team stories with WHIO-TV.
Sweigart is a graduate of Wright State University and Wayne High School in Huber Heights.
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Latest from Josh Sweigart
State accuses 14 daycares of fraud, pulls funding
An unprecedented fraud crackdown has led Ohio officials to cut off payments to 14 child care centers since October — including one in Dayton and five in the Cincinnati area — for allegedly charging the taxpayer-funded program for children not in their care. These centers are accused of overbilling the ...
Auditor helping 1,400 small governments save money
Small government bodies such as libraries, planning commissions and tiny villages will save some of their public dollars under a new program that drastically cuts the costs of state-mandated audits.Since the program was launched in December, 11 governments in this region have cut the cost of their audits by an ...
Millions meant for veterans pocketed by suspect ‘charities’
Millions of dollars meant for veterans has been stolen by con men or misspent by charities in recent years, according to Ohio officials who tell the Dayton Daily News they are stepping up enforcement. Recently a sweeping investigation by the Ohio Attorney General of AMVETS found 59 locations around the ...
When it comes to campus police, what happens at UD stays at UD
Investigations of theft, assault and even rape are handled by University of Dayton police who sometimes take people into custody or mete out punishment without any of the oversight expected of other police forces.Under Ohio law, private university police forces have and use broad discretion on whether to issue a ...
Beer flows, police follow in UD student ‘ghetto’
The University of Dayton issued more than 3,500 alcohol violations over a three-year period, outpacing much larger schools and raising questions about whether underage and excessive drinking is as much a part of the school as academics and basketball. The university’s disciplinary referrals for drinking trailed only Ohio State among ...
Charity for troops instead spent money on liquor, movies
The head of a local charitable organization claiming to help soldiers incarcerated for crimes allegedly committed during combat instead used donated funds at liquor stores, Redbox kiosks and for other personal purposes, the Ohio Attorney General said Friday. Riverside resident Cari Johnson, head of the charity A Dollar to Care, ...
Judge’s vacation time: 14 weeks
Montgomery County Domestic Relations Judge Denise Cross scheduled 14 weeks of vacation last year, more than twice the amount taken by fellow Domestic Relations Judge Timothy Wood, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Cross also took 14 weeks in 2011. How that compares to other judges is unclear because there ...
Man hired after allegedly misspending public funds
A Centerville man who resigned from Clinton County Children Services after paying back $713 for trips he was reimbursed for but never took is now working next door in Highland County. This is another example uncovered by the Dayton Daily News of public employees being permitted to pay back misspent ...
Group wants to expand Earned Income Tax Credit in Ohio
Some in Ohio are working to get the Earned Income Tax Credit to more people as a means to both fight poverty and boost the economy. Policy Matters Ohio, a left-leaning think tank, presented a proposal to the Ohio House Finance and Appropriations Committee last week to create a state-level ...
Tax payout for low-income workers doubled in Ohio
The nation’s largest cash-assistance program for the working poor has doubled in size since the 1990s and is plagued with an overpayment rate of up to 25 percent, one of the largest error rates of all federal programs, a Dayton Daily News analysis has found. This tax season, the Earned ...
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