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The Columbus Dispatch reports:
Two of former Attorney General Marc Dann's top lieutenants pleaded guilty this morning to misdemeanor ethics charges arising from their roles in Dann's scandal-shortened term in office.
Leo Jennings III and Edgar C. Simpson became the second and third Dann aides to plead guilty to criminal charges alleging abuse of the former attorney general's political funds or failure to report outside income.
Simpson apologized and was fined $1,000 by Judge H. William Pollitt Jr. of Franklin County Municipal Court. Jennings came next and was fined $2,000 and given two years' probation.
There's more:
Jennings, 54, of suburban Youngstown, is a longtime Dann associate who helped engineer the Democrat's 2006 election victory and was hired as the attorney general's top office spokesman. He pleaded guilty to two first-degree misdemeanors: illegally accepting more than $15,000 in payments from Dann's political accounts, and failing to disclose more than $27,000 in outside income, most of it from the Ohio Democratic Party.
Imagine that.
