Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Bribery at Ohio BWC

New Workers’ Comp bribery accusations surface
Agent charged with paying former official

Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


Clarke T. Blizzard showered a former top official at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation with tickets and gifts, including $2,300 cash to his former girlfriend and more than $9,000 for his son’s college tuition, authorities said yesterday.

In return, companies that Blizzard represented received or kept hundreds of millions of dollars in bureau investment business and more than $2.5 million in fees and commissions, according to a bill of information filed in Cleveland federal court.

Blizzard was charged with one count of conspiring to bribe Terrence W. Gasper, the bureau’s former chief financial officer. A bill of information typically means the defendant has agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors. More....

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I always wonder how these people don't think they are going to get caught!

King

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