The Columbus Dispatch | Jim Siegel In late November, the commerce department announced the winners of cultivator provisional licenses, but many of the unsuccessful applicants challenged the scoring and lawsuits were filed over various issues, including the selection of experts to oversee the process. Yost’s office launched an examination of the process and uncovered errors

The Columbus Dispatch | Jim Siegel As drug-overdose deaths in Ohio continue to hit shocking record highs, Dave Yost doesn’t want to just tweak the state’s effort to combat the heroin and opioid crisis. “A great deal of what we think is wrong, and we need to do things substantially differently,” said the state auditor

Cleveland.com | Jackie Borchardt COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s prescription drug middlemen kept 31 percent of the money they were paid to manage generic medications for Medicaid patients, reducing the amount pharmacies were paid to dispense the drugs, according to a new state auditor’s analysis of drug transactions. But the analysis left many more questions unanswered about whether

Statehouse News Bureau | Karen Kasler As the House was going through multiple rounds of voting to pick a new Speaker, the Senate passed a surprise amendment to expand the state auditor’s power to look into the workings of the privatized non-profit entity JobsOhio… The amendment gives the state auditor more of a role in

WTOL A state audit released Thursday details a theft of almost $175,000 by a former employee of the Lucas County Clerk of Courts office, who was sentenced last week to jail time for theft in office. The audit of Lucas County also notes that an ongoing investigation by the Auditor of State’s Public Integrity Assurance Team

The Youngstown Vindicator | Ed Runyan In the first local criminal trial of a major Trumbull County public official in a decade, Ralph Infante was convicted of 22 criminal charges, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity throughout his 24 years as Niles mayor. Infante looked straight ahead late Monday and did not seem

cleveland.com | Jackie Borchardt The software that was intended to help the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow accurately report student activity was used by state auditors to show the now-shuttered online charter school might not have been completely honest in its reporting. Ohio Auditor Dave Yost said ActivTrak was the “smoking gun” that allowed auditors to prove

Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison According to a new report from the Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost’s office, the Lawrence County Educational Service Center and its former treasurer erroneously spent almost $93,000 in expenses with funds of a now-shuttered charter school that it sponsored. An audit of the Lawrence County Academy, which closed in June

For Immediate Release Yost Ad Calls Out Opponent for Anti-Voter Views on Elected AGs April 18, 2018 Columbus – Auditor of State Dave Yost, the GOP candidate for Ohio attorney general, today released a 15-second ad challenging his opponent’s anti-voter views on elected office. At a recent Columbus Chamber of Commerce roundtable discussion, former political