Email to the mayor and city council about anti-corruption 6.1.25

 

When former city council member P.G. Sittenfeld was pardoned by President Trump for his federal corruption conviction, there was a lot of discussion of the pardon and all the political and prosecutorial angles.

I decided to use the pardon instead to remind people about the corruption that tarnished the city’s reputation so terribly and review what the city has done in terms of anti-corruption reforms under Mayor Pureval. (Which is very little). My Op-Ed included actions that I thought the mayor and the council should each take. So, I decided I should send the Op-Ed to them.

The entire episode with Crowe LLP, the audit firm brought in by the outgoing city council to do an anti-corruption audit, was highly irregular and badly handled. And who knows if any of elected officials have read the report and recommendations from the Economic Development Reform Panel.

Two podcast episodes cover the topic, Episodes 12 &17.

Yahoo Mail – Transmitting Anti-corruption Op-Ed to the mayor and city council

Cincinnati falls short in response to corruption scandal _ Opinion