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Christian Hilty, 51, of Chagrin Falls, was charged with one count of theft.
Richard Goldizen, Jr., 54, of Perry, was charged with one count of attempted records tampering.
A fourth defendant scheduled to be in court today has been rescheduled for Friday (Aug. 7).
On July 31, two ODOT employees and one ODOT vendor were also charged by way of information. All six are scheduled for pre-trials on Wednesday (Aug. 5).
The Ohio Inspector General’s Office and the Ohio State Highway Patrol conducted the investigation.
Charges against 25 additional individuals are said to be forthcoming.
Seven ODOT employees resigned or were fired last year following a state report outlining nearly $11 million in questionable or improper payments to contractors.
Employees allegedly accepted lap dances at strip clubs, fishing trips and other favors for steering contracts.

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The Associated Press
11:26 AM Tuesday, August 4, 2009
CLEVELAND — Three business people have been charged in Cleveland in a widening investigation of alleged contract steering in the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The charges of bribery, theft and attempted records tampering were filed Tuesday. They bring to six the number of defendants charged in the investigation.
All six are due in court on Wednesday, and the Cuyahoga (keye-uh-HOH’-guh) County prosecutor expects charges against two more people next week.
Seven ODOT employees resigned or were fired last year following a state report outliningnearly $11 million in questionable or improper payments to contractors. Employees allegedly accepted lap dances at strip clubs, fishing trips and other favors for steering contracts.
August 04, 2009 03:21 PM EDT

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3 more charged in Ohio corruption investigationAugust 04, 2009 11:21 EDT
CLEVELAND (AP) — Three business people have been charged in Cleveland in a widening investigation of alleged contract steering in the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The charges of bribery, theft and attempted records tampering were filed Tuesday. They bring to six the number of defendants charged in the investigation.
All six are due in court on Wednesday, and the Cuyahoga County prosecutor expects charges against two more people next week.
Seven ODOT employees resigned or were fired last year following a state report outlining nearly $11 million in questionable or improper payments to contractors. Employees allegedly accepted lap dances at strip clubs, fishing trips and other favors for steering contracts.

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They will join former ODOT storekeeper Joseph Jedrzejek, former ODOT auto mechanic William Werman and vendor Jeffrey Bauer in Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Ann Sutula’s courtroom Wednesday for a pretrial hearing.
Assistant County Prosecutor Paul Soucie said he expects all to take responsibility for their role in a decade-long scheme of bid-rigging and fraud that may have cost the state millions.
A fourth person set to appear in court today was rescheduled to appear at an arraignment hearing Friday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court along with two others.
The charges are in connection with an Ohio inspector general’s report released last October, which described how vendors plied high-ranking officials in ODOT’s District 12 office in Garfield Heights with cash, vacations and sex with strippers on Lake Erie fishing trips in return for state contracts.

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By Gia Vang
August 2, 2009
EUGENE, Ore. — Ex-con turned mentor charged in an underaged prostitution ring is speaking out only to KEZI 9 News.
Aronte Kerney said he has been unfairly lumped in with the other suspects even though his case is unrelated.
Kerney admits he has had run-ins with the law but has turned his life around, even becoming a mentor to deter them from leading the gang life he did as a youth.

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Here is what Metallica had to say: “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts Wow . . . did they really invite us to be a part of these shows? We could not be more honored to be participating in a two night series of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York that will benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
“Get this – we’re playing with U2, Eric Clapton and Aretha Franklin on October 30! Night number one on October 29 will include Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and friends . . . and our friends at the Hall of Fame tell us there will be more great artists, but that it’s all still top secret.” – They go on to pimp tickets to the event.

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In other words, it’s the perfect place for a full-power get-down. And while there have been notable shindigs on the island in the past—back in 2007, Basement Bhangra’s DJ Rekha and Subatomic Sound System teamed up there for a jam, for instance, and Jump N Funk’s Rich Medina and Soulgasm’s Brian Coxx just played last week’s Seaside Soul Series—Turntables on the Hudson might be just the crew to convince Governors Island virgins to pop their landlubbin’ cherries.
TOTH residents Nickodemus and Mariano, along with percussionists Nappy G. and Christian Rogers, rarely fail to attract a crowd on their own, but they’ve recruited a team of ringers for this bash just to make sure. The Pimps of Joytime, signed to Nickodemus’s Wonderwheel Recordings, make high-stepping funk that dares you not to move; Jovanotti is an Italian recording artist (with a sideline in deejaying) whose raucus deck sets usually feature a live element. Toss in jazz-dance spinner Fabrizio (from the Meltin’ Pot) and Rob Weisberg of WFMU’s Transpacific Sound Paradise show, and you’ve got yourself a party worth braving New York Bay for.—Bruce Tantum

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July 21, 2009
Hey, Barry…about that ‘post partisan’ presidency you promised
Rick Moran
William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal has an excellent Op-ed today where he traces the evolution of the phrase “post partisan” which was all the rage last summer with the press when they were pimping Obama’s candidacy but that now has devolved into something totally different.
In recent weeks, Obama aides have redefined post partisanship to include the amazing formulation that Republican votes on bills are not necessary for that to be true, only “Republican ideas” incorporated into a bill.
The president himself endorsed this redefinition during Rose Garden remarks delivered after a Senate committee passed a health-care bill on a strictly party-line vote. Perhaps only someone who truly embraces “the audacity of hope” could see healthy bipartisanship at work in the complete lack of GOP votes. Here’s how he put it: “It’s a plan that was debated for more than 50 hours and that, by the way, includes 160 Republican amendments-a hopeful sign of bipartisan …

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NASA’s New ‘Pimped-Out’ Lunar Rover
Thursday, July 16, 2009 By Clara Moskowitz
NASA’s new moon rover looks like it’s been on TV’s “Pimp My Ride.”
While the Apollo-era vehicle that first landed on the moon in 1971 resembled a rickety dune buggy, NASA’s 21st Century rover plans look like a luxury lunar RV.
There may be no more open-air lunar drives clad in bulky spacesuits for astronauts. Instead, future moon travelers can ride in style in an enclosed cabin complete with sleeping bunks for long rides. Bubble-shaped windows will provide a panoramic view.
The new vehicle, currently being designed by NASA as part of its Constellation program to revisit the moon by 2020, is called the Lunar Electric Rover (LER).
It rides atop a Chariot chassis, which astronauts can also drive separately for use as a lunar truck.

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There is no “I” in team, as Lance Armstrong noted via Twitter this week in a missive aimed at teammate and Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, but there is in acrimony. . . .
We’ve not seen the last of Brett Favre, who will be featured in an upcoming TV commercial poking fun at his now legendary indecisiveness as he waffles over a big-ticket purchase. . . .
The Minnesota Vikings probably won’t find it amusing. . . .
Was it a Bush Push — figuratively, not literally — that led to Reggie Bush’s split with Kim Kardashian? . . .
Kevin Provencher, a now-suspended New Hampshire Union-Leader sportswriter who was charged this week with running a prostitution ring, was a beat reporter who covered the Manchester Monarchs, the Kings’ American Hockey League affiliate. . . .

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