A former member of the oversight commission for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation was charged Tuesday with ethics violations accusing him of accepting inappropriate meals, flights and other gifts, authorities said.Emphasis added.
The charges, which allege George Forbes took the gifts from two investment marketers linked to companies doing or seeking business from the agency, are the latest in a string of criminal cases that have resulted from a scandal uncovered two years ago over lost investments at the agency.
Forbes, a former member of the panel that oversees operations of the state insurance fund for injured workers, has agreed to plead guilty to some of the six charges and no contest to others at an arraignment Thursday, his attorney James Wooley said. He declined further comment.
Forbes, president of the Cleveland NAACP and a longtime figure in Democratic politics in the state, accepted entertainment and other items of value from the two investment marketers from October 1997 through November 2003, the Ohio Ethics Commission said in a news release.
Each charge is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Now watch the rest of the Ohio press and Democrats (but I repeat myself) attempt to paint this guy as a Republican...
The truth: he's just another corrupt Ohio Democrat. Nothing to see here, right Ohio media?
