Cleveland Strip Clubs: Three arraigned in ODOT scandal
Soucie said 31 people likely will be charged as a result of the investigation, which was the subject of a 69-page report completed by Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles in October.
Charles’ report examined a decade’s worth of business dealings by employees at the Ohio Department of Transportation’s offices in Garfield Heights and nearly three dozen ODOT vendors.
O’Donnell is accused in the report of seeking to win ODOT contracts by taking the district’s facilities manager, Dennis Kratochvil, and equipment manager, Terrence Kosmata, out on his 36-foot boat with strippers and with other ODOT vendors.
The annual “ODOT Boat Day” events were described in the report as a “day of drinking, swimming and frolicking.”
The vendors and ODOT employees also attended annual Christmas parties at Cleveland strip clubs, leaving behind large amounts of cash to cover the expensive events, according to the report.