Drive It Like You Stole It - Marc Dann (Democrat Attorney General) had ex-con for driver
from the Journal-News
http://www.journal-news.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/05/31/ddn053107dannweb.html
COLUMBUS — For the last three months, an ex-con has been driving Attorney General Marc Dann around the state and attending to his security details.
Dann's office fired David L. Nelson, 57, last week when a national criminal background check turned up a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter conviction from 1976 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
Nelson, a retired steel worker from Girard near Youngstown, passed an Ohio criminal background check when he was hired Feb. 20 as a $12-an-hour, part-time driver for Dann, said Jennifer Brindisi, a spokeswoman for the attorney general. Nelson's title was deputy security director.
When Nelson was expected to transfer to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to work transporting evidence, a national background check was ordered.
Pennsylvania records show Nelson was originally charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter in the Sept. 6, 1975, shooting death of John M. Smith. Those charges were dropped when Nelson agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in prison but served most of that time in a half-way house and later on probation.
Nelson worked as a driver on Dann's campaign as well, transporting him for thousands of miles, and contributed to Dann's campaign coffers, according to state records. But Dann was unaware of Nelson's criminal background, Brindisi said.
Nelson did not return telephone messages Thursday.
In April, Dann fired Rick Alli, his "top cop," and asked the Ohio Ethics Commission to investigate him for possible ethics law violations. Alli failed to resign from his post with the Youngstown Police Department once he began his $112,000-a-year job as Dann's Director of Law Enforcement Operations.
Dann, a Democrat, won the attorney general's seat in November after aggressively campaigning against corruption in state government.
http://www.journal-news.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/05/31/ddn053107dannweb.html
COLUMBUS — For the last three months, an ex-con has been driving Attorney General Marc Dann around the state and attending to his security details.
Dann's office fired David L. Nelson, 57, last week when a national criminal background check turned up a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter conviction from 1976 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
Nelson, a retired steel worker from Girard near Youngstown, passed an Ohio criminal background check when he was hired Feb. 20 as a $12-an-hour, part-time driver for Dann, said Jennifer Brindisi, a spokeswoman for the attorney general. Nelson's title was deputy security director.
When Nelson was expected to transfer to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to work transporting evidence, a national background check was ordered.
Pennsylvania records show Nelson was originally charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter in the Sept. 6, 1975, shooting death of John M. Smith. Those charges were dropped when Nelson agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in prison but served most of that time in a half-way house and later on probation.
Nelson worked as a driver on Dann's campaign as well, transporting him for thousands of miles, and contributed to Dann's campaign coffers, according to state records. But Dann was unaware of Nelson's criminal background, Brindisi said.
Nelson did not return telephone messages Thursday.
In April, Dann fired Rick Alli, his "top cop," and asked the Ohio Ethics Commission to investigate him for possible ethics law violations. Alli failed to resign from his post with the Youngstown Police Department once he began his $112,000-a-year job as Dann's Director of Law Enforcement Operations.
Dann, a Democrat, won the attorney general's seat in November after aggressively campaigning against corruption in state government.
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