CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Ohio Inspector General report found that nine Ohio Lottery Commission employees falsified time cards, earning nearly $30,000 in pay and benefits for time not worked at the JACK Thistledown Racino.
We’re talking about how many hours they falsified and what else they were doing (including working other jobs) on Today in Ohio.
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Here are the questions we’re answering today:
How did nine Ohio Lottery Commission workers whose job is to investigate wrongdoing and issues at the Thistledown Racino end up being the subject of a blistering investigation themselves, about their well-organized scheme to get paid for not working and leaving the Thistledown Racino uncovered?
How much will Cleveland pay to a dozen protesters police wrongfully arrested during the protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota?
Remember the Lonz Winery, which once was one of the biggest in the country until it collapsed in 2000, killing one and injuring 75? The state now owns the site. What does the state proposing spending $5 million on at the site now?
It’s a phony…
