Lawyer says fund-raiser touted jobs from Petro
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O'Brien said that, last summer at Spice, a Columbus hangout for young professionals, he approached an attractive young woman, Amy Gravengaard, who introduced herself as Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro's fund-raiser.
"Within 60 seconds into the conversation, she focused on whether I was interested in becoming special counsel," O'Brien told The Plain Dealer. "She said, 'If you want to do it, here's what you have to do.' There were suggested levels of donations and fund raising."...
O'Brien detailed the conversation in an affidavit filed Monday in a Democrat-financed lawsuit that accuses Petro, Gov. Bob Taft and other top-ranking Republicans of selling state business for campaign cash. Republicans argue that the suit is politically motivated.
The new filing also includes comments from another Columbus lawyer who described how he gave to county Republican Party accounts, donations that enabled him to get around the $1,000 limit on direct donations from lawyers who do special-counsel work...