Ohio House candidate owes $1.3 million from 2014 fraud judgement, plaintiff says
A Columbus area GOP candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives told the state’s ethics commission this month that he failed to disclose a pair of creditors who say he owes them $1.3 million.
Ohio ethics laws require House candidates to disclose their sources of income, plus their debtors and creditors over $1,000. Dave Dobos, who is running in the 10th Ohio House district, does not mention the legal judgement against him in his July 3 financial disclosure. But in an Oct. 19 email to the Ohio Ethics Commission, he added William and Nancy Sheridan’s name to his creditors and apologized for the “error.”
Delaware Common Pleas Judge W. Duncan Whitney ruled in 2014 that Dave Dobos intentionally misrepresented and concealed his history of business failures, his “extraordinary debt load,” and personal insolvency when he purchased Sheridan Inc., an education supply business owned by William Sheridan.
The court ordered Dobos, now running for the state House of Representatives, to pay about $330,000 for the business plus nearly $1 million in punitive damages. According to William Sheridan, who filed the lawsuit, Dobos has yet to pay a penny on it.
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