Richard Cordray

Where are the 100,000 coronavirus infected Ohioans Gov. Richard Michael DeWine?

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CLEVELAND, OH – If you’re like most Ohioans reading my EJBNEWS headline the revelation that your governor’s first name is “Richard” and middle name is “Michael” is a surprise.  But the names Richard Michael DeWine are on “Mike DeWine’s” title to his home, drivers license and the attorney directory for the Supreme Court of Ohio.  He’s been running for and holding elected office under a pseudonym in a state where election laws require candidates to seek office under the same name that’s on the drivers license they show deputy registrars to vote.  They are among some of the state’s laws…

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DeWine admits his calling 61 pain docs drug dealers drove Ohioans to heroin

Richard Michael DeWine's attack on 61 Ohio physicians he falsely-accused of being drug dealers is the exact and traceable reason Ohioans went to the streets instead of doctors for pain medications.

CLEVELAND, OH – In a 2015 telephone interview Governor Richard Michael DeWine, when he was the state’s attorney general, shockingly revealed to an Ohio law enforcement newsletter how his duty-exceeding pursuit of physicians he accused without evidence of being drug dealers or “pill mill” operators caused people to turn to heroin. EJBNEWS uncovered DeWine’s sad admission in a February 16, 2015 newsletter published by the Ohio Task Force Commanders Association.  The newsletter featured a story headlined, “Ohio state, local officials working to prevent ‘pill mills’.” The story doesn’t carry a byline, but the writer wrote that a telephone interview was…

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Greater Cleveland drug recovery agency anchors presence in next epidemic neighborhoods

CLEVELAND, OH – Anita Bradley’s request to her board chairman to purchase a permanent location for the Northern Ohio Recovery Agency (NORA) was met with an immediate “yes.”  Carolyn Cleveland knew the plans the agency’s chief executive officer was implementing to provide assistant to greater Clevelanders seeking addiction recovery help.  A permanent location between two interstates and within access to several major public transportation routes made sense.  The price of the building was even better.  Instead of paying rent NORA would become a property owner with room to grow.  People experiencing addiction and seeking help would always know where to…

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DeWine lets cops make arrests without credentials

Richard Michael DeWine leaves every elected office he serves in administratively worse off than it was when he arrived.

  At least twice in his career as an East Cleveland cop since so-called “chief” of police Michael Cardilli has let his Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) credentials expire. The first time was for 5 years between November 17, 1999 and August 10, 2005. The city’s late chief of police, and not the mayor, received an August 10, 2005 letter from Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro’s office telling her that Cardilli and another cop, Paula Robinson, had continued to impersonate law enforcement officers for 5 and 13 years past dates they should have “ceased performing the duties of a…

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