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Mason said that as the defendant sat in a courtroom Monday preparing to plead guilty to bribery and theft, an anonymous person called his cell phone and ordered him to “plead the Fifth” if he valued his health and safety.
The defendant immediately reported the threat and still pleaded guilty. Prosecutors declined to identify the victim, but James Bright, 71, of North Royalton, pleaded guilty Monday and will be sentenced Oct. 20. He faces two years in prison. He owns Bright Chemical.
Investigators believe Kratochvil placed the call. He is scheduled to be arraigned today.
Ohio’s inspector general released a report last October following an 18-month investigation that placed Kratochvil at the helm of decade-long practices of bid-rigging and fraud that may have cost the state millions. Vendors plied high-ranking local ODOT officials with cash, vacations and sex with strippers in return for state contracts.

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