Friday, May 2, 2014

Local Boy Makes Good?

 

Then: Randy Meyer is New Ohio IG

From The Columbus Dispatch January 2018
Randy Meyer, the chief investigator for state Auditor Mary Taylor and a former police officer, was appointed Ohio inspector general today by Gov.-elect John Kasich.
Meyer, 44, a Republican from Wilmington, will replace Thomas P. Charles, who will be Kasich’s public safety director when he takes office on Jan. 10. Kasich and Taylor announced the appointment today at the Clinton County Courthouse in Wilmington, where Meyer was a police officer from 1994-99.

Now: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/05/01/new-coingate-report-to-include-roles-of-taft-aide.html

New ‘Coingate’ report to include roles of Taft, aide

State Inspector General Randy Meyer is expected to release a new “Coingate” report today that reflects the criminal convictions of former Republican Gov. Bob Taft and his executive assistant on ethics charges.
The report Meyer released last week of his investigation into the investment scandal at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation from nearly a decade ago did not include the convictions of five whose records were expunged.

The roles of Taft, former aide J. Douglas Moormann and three others were missing from Meyer’s report.
Now, the inspector general’s office concedes that blame for the presumed sealing of Taft’s and Moormann’s case files was incorrecting the mistake on an investigative attorney’s research error.

................Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders called yesterday for Meyer’s ousterbecause of the initial report. Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said Meyer should “resign immediately,” citing not only the report that turned up nothing new but also Meyer’s failure to interview Taft or Noe. Redfern said a new state investigation should be conducted by Ohio Legislative Inspector General Tony Bledsoe. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald said Republican Gov. John Kasich, who appointed Meyer, should demand that Meyer resign................
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