From James Nash in The Dispatch:

After pocketing more than $42,000 during a seven-month administrative leave, a special agent who works in a division of the attorney general’s office has been fired for work-related sexual misconduct.

Attorney General Marc Dann’s office fired Dwight L. Aspacher, a special agent for the Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, on April 11 after a lengthy investigation into allegations that he demanded sex from a fellow member of a narcotics task force.

Documents show that although Aspacher was suspended two days after the allegations came to light, Dann’s office didn’t open a formal investigation until more than three months later. The documents don’t shed light on the reasons for the delay, and aides to Dann couldn’t provide an explanation late yesterday.[...]

According to the complaint, Aspacher repeatedly made sexual comments to a 26-year-old woman on the drug task force, groped her on several occasions, tried to take pictures up her skirt with a digital camera, showed her naked pictures of himself and compelled her to perform oral sex on him three times — once in a state vehicle. The woman also said Aspacher once masturbated while driving down a state highway with her in the passenger seat.

Is anyone else noticing a trend here? After hiring a killer, a driver who illegally carries a firearm, a car-crashing sexual assaulter, a double-dipping Youngstown Policeman and a CPA who actually wasn’t a CPA, Dann would have done better for himself by hiring 1400 random people out of the Columbus phonebook.

I also continue to hear rumors that Dann is busy checking out lawfirms he would go to if he really has to resign. But who would want to hire a mediocre Divorce attorney who turned the AG’s office into a frat house?