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COTA: A Ticket to Ride
WBNS-TV conducted a one year investigation and a series of open records requets to look into allegations of corruption by Ron Barnes, president of Central Ohio's Transit Authority (COTA). Through their investigation, they uncovered a series of e-mails between Barnes and former transit authority board member Ernie Sullivan, who negotiated a high-priced consultants job for himself in clear violation of Ohio's Ehtics Law. The Ethics Commission found violations of the state ethics law, ordered the resignation of former transit authority board member and current consultant Ernie Sullivan. The Commission also ordered Sullivan and COTA president Ron Barnes to refund taxpayers $18,000.
Tags: Central Ohio's Transit Authority; Ohio Ethics Commission; Ron Barnes; Ernie Sullivan; open records act
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In this Plain Dealer story it is disclosed that two clients of the insurance agency owned by the chairman of the Ohio Turnpike Commission are on the team that last year began helping to design and build the turnpike's third-lane project. Turnpike Chairman Umberto Fedeli did not list those relationships in his financial disclosure statement for 1995. (August 18, 1996)