COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Two high-ranking aides to former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ethics charges resulting from investigations of their old office.
Dann's former chief of staff Edgar Simpson received a $1,000 fine Thursday after he pleaded guilty to not reporting hundreds of dollars he received from Dann's campaign and transition committees.
Dann's one-time communications chief Leo Jennings received a $2,000 fine and two years' probation for accepting more than $15,000 in supplemental income from the committees and for funneling money to another previously convicted Dann aide for rent
on a condominium.
Jennings said his reporting failures were an oversight made during an emotional time after he was fired from an office mired in scandal.
Ohio Ethics Commission director David Freel says Ohio law prohibited Jennings from taking money from a political account for personal use.