#OHSEN Slugfest: Bernie Moreno Facing Further Attacks After Reports Show He Shredded Documents To Get Out Of Paying His Employees Overtime
February 5, 2024
Matt Dolan Takes Another Shot At Moreno, Proving This Is “An Attack That [Ohioans Are] Going To Keep Hearing About Moreno”
Columbus, OH – Last week, Matt Dolan took another shot at Bernie Moreno for shredding evidence he was legally required to keep to get out of paying his employees the overtime they’d earned. On conservative radio, Dolan called out Moreno as someone who “won’t do what’s best for Ohioans and Americans” but instead will “do what’s best for Bernie Moreno.”
Matt Dolan on Moreno shredding documents to get out of paying his employees the overtime they’d earned: “[T]hat’s, that’s an extreme position of lack of trust and public service is all about trust […] When you, when you’re, when his employees needed him to do the right thing, he did what’s best for Bernie Moreno, not what’s best for his employee. He will do the same thing. He won’t do what’s best for Ohioans and Americans, he’ll do what’s best for Bernie Moreno. We’ve had enough of that.” [TBHS, 2/2/24]
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WCMH: “During a debate between Republican candidates in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, state Sen. Matt Dolan accused businessman Bernie Moreno of shredding evidence against him in a court case. …The court record did affirm Dolan’s claim that Moreno got rid of evidence. ‘The inference is clear: Defendants either did not retain or shredded at least these monthly reports,’ a judge wrote in the documents.”
Business Insider: “From the beginning, Moreno was required to preserve all documents relevant to the case, and he specifically agreed to do so in January 2020 as the Adem case progressed. But during a May 2021 deposition for one of those wage theft cases, Moreno conceded that in late 2020, he had destroyed paper copies of monthly reports containing information about overtime hours worked by some employees… [T]he judge in that case, Justice Michael Ricciuti, chose to sanction him for destroying potential evidence…”
Haley BeMiller, WVXU: “Dolan especially went after Moreno on [the overtime pay lawsuits] pretty hard, and specifically went after him on this part in one of the court cases where Moreno was sanctioned by a judge for destroying records pertaining to employees’ overtime pay while the litigation was still ongoing. Dolan said […] that Moreno can’t be trusted… That’s an attack that we’re going to keep hearing against Moreno […] and certainly this lawsuit thing has become an issue.”
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