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TesTech owners pay $2.9 million to settle fraud case
Prominent Washington Twp. developers David C. and Shery Oakes, along with their former business partner Sherif Aziz, have agreed to pay the U.S. government nearly $2.9 million to settle civil claims that they defrauded the government by making false statements about a civil engineering company called TesTech to obtain millions ...
Catholic Church to rewrite teacher contracts
The 2013-2014 employment contract for schoolteachers in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati includes a new provision: Teachers must agree that they are “ministerial” employees subject to a morals clause requiring them to live in accordance with Catholic teachings, inside and outside the classroom, regardless of their own personal faith. ...
Two top Ohio list with 20 OVI convictions
Nearly 1 million Ohio drivers have had their licenses suspended for drunken driving and 107 drivers have racked up 20 or more suspensions, a Dayton Daily News analysis of state data shows. Not all suspensions result in convictions, but the Daily News found two Ohioans – Curtis Sears, 54, of ...
Trammell, FBI’s original target, remains a free man
Several supporters sat in the federal courtroom last week as Angela Goodwine, 53, solemnly admitted she stole thousands of dollars in taxpayer money meant to help battered women. Her father, the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, was not among them. Even though Trammell, 76, was the original target of the FBI investigation ...
Trammell’s daughter pleads guilty to stealing $70K in funds for battered women
Angela Goodwine, 53, of Dayton pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to stealing $70,000 in taxpayer money that was supposed to help battered women. The conviction was the second related to social services programs operated by the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Montgomery County. Goodwine’s ...
State trying to give away millions to protect Fernald site
The federal government spent $4.4 billion at the Cold War-era Feed Materials Production Center atomic plant to erase decades of pollution, making the environmentally befouled site so clean it’s now a nature preserve. Now the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is trying to keep new pollutants out of the site — ...
Some say U.S. took ‘public safety exception’ too far
During 16 hours of questioning in his hospital room, Dzhokar Tsarnaev gave the FBI details about his role in the Boston Marathon bombings, U.S. officials have said. But the 19-year-old suspect clammed up immediately after a magistrate judge entered the room Monday and read him his so-called Miranda rights against ...
Lebanon prison focus of steroid probe
A drug task force is investigating illegal steroid use, distribution and manufacture among staff at the Lebanon Correctional Institution state prison, the Dayton Daily News has learned.Commander John Burke said the investigation by the Greater Warren County Drug Task Force is centered on prison employees, not inmates. No arrests have ...
Prison focus of steroid probe
A drug task force is investigating illegal steroid use, distribution and manufacture among staff at the Lebanon Correctional Institution state prison, the Dayton Daily News has learned.Commander John Burke said the investigation by the Greater Warren County Drug Task Force is centered on prison employees, not inmates. No arrests have ...
State’s high-security prisons becoming more dangerous
TOLEDO — For the first 12 years of its existence, Toledo Correctional Institution was free of homicides. Then, in early 2012, the state implemented a program designed to make Ohio prisons safer. Since then, there have been two inmate-on-inmate murders and twice as many physical or sexual assaults. The Toledo ...
Trammell’s daughter faces federal charge
The U.S. Attorney’s office has filed a federal charge against Angela Goodwine, the daughter of disgraced civil rights leader the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, alleging she acted as an agent for an organization that “stole, obtained by fraud and intentionally misapplied” in excess of $10,000 in grant money provided by the ...
Overtime costs reduced at Ohio prisons
Staff overtime costs for Ohio’s prison system, the state’s largest agency, declined more than 13 percent from 2008 to 2012, dropping from $68.5 million to $59.4 million, according to a new report from a watchdog group. Use of overtime declined from 2008 to 2012 in 20 prisons, including Dayton Correctional ...
White supremacist gangs becoming increased threat in and outside of prisons
White supremacist prison gangs, such as those under suspicion in the recent murders of Colorado’s prisons chief and two district attorneys in Texas, “increasingly threaten our communities” as their members finish their sentences and continue gang activity in the outside world, a national expert on the organizations told the Dayton ...
One in 6 Ohio inmates belong to gangs
More than 16 percent of all Ohio prison inmates are affiliated with violent gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, the Crips and the Bloods, according to a report issued Tuesday by a state prison watchdog group. Prison officials as of Jan. 2 have linked 8,272 of Ohio’s nearly 50,000 current inmates ...
Tougher laws haven’t slowed drunk drivers
It wasn’t such an unusual day for William Todd Newman of Springfield. Again he was drunk. Again he was behind the wheel. Again he was busted. If he’s found guilty, it’ll be Newman’s 14th driving-under-the-influence conviction since 1978. He has a dozen more prior convictions on related charges like hit-skip ...
Prison guard who falsified records keeps job
State prison officials have disciplined a guard at Lebanon Correctional Institution for failing to maintain proper rounds on the night an inmate committed suicide, then falsifying records to make it appear she acted properly.Warden Ernie Moore ordered the firing of Corrections Officer Denna Watts, but granted a “last chance,” JoEllen ...
State could owe millions to local businesses
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation knowingly created an inequitable system of setting premiums for workers’ comp insurance that resulted in overcharges to hundreds of thousands of Ohio businesses between 2001 and 2008, according to a judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit. A March 14 hearing in Cuyahoga County Common ...
Charter schools criticize audit that claims state is owed $860,000
The Ohio auditor’s office on Thursday again issued findings for recovery involving Dayton’s Richard Allen Academy charter schools, saying their management company, Institute of Management and Resources Inc., owes taxpayers nearly $860,000.“It doesn’t appear that much has changed at the Richard Allen schools,” Ohio Auditor Dave Yost said in a ...
Some agencies hit harder than others
With mandatory federal spending cuts set to kick in Friday without a last minute compromise on Capitol Hill, some state and local officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude while others expressed deep concerns about the fallout from the so-called sequester. Cuts to the military have received much of the attention, ...
Congressman Mike Turner reacts to news on defense furloughs
Congressman Mike Turner came by the WHIO-TV, radio and Dayton Daily News offices today to talk about sequestration and the Defense Department’s announcement today that up to 800,000 civilian defense workers - including 13,000 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are facing furloughs. Here’s some of what he had to say. ...
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