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Article: Lobbyists hit with reporting pressure: State inspector levies fines, seeks charges.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2007
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Byline: Jim Siegel
May 25--Legislative Inspector General Tony Bledsoe is fining a record number of Ohio lobbyists and their employers today for failing to disclose what they spent trying to influence government officials.
In addition, Bledsoe next week will tell Attorney General Marc Dann why he should recommend that criminal charges be brought against six employers who filed no disclosure forms in 2006, missing all three reporting deadlines.
Bledsoe's office in the past has infrequently imposed fines or pursued criminal charges for failure to file. The new crackdown is an effort to tame the growing number of lobbyists and employers who are ...