The Ohio attorney general's multi-state case against an alleged scam artist who collected as much as $100 million ostensibly for Navy veterans doesn't address the man's donations to politicians, including the attorney general himself.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says that he's concentrating on convicting the man who calls himself Bobby Thompson and that the man's political contributions are "kind of a sidebar to the scam." Bobby Thompson is now identified by authorities as former military intelligence officer John Donald Cody. He sits in a Cleveland jail awaiting trial this month. He has contributed to a host of high-profile Republicans. DeWine's latest annual report emphasizes the dramatic nature of Thompson's case - multiple fake IDs and a cash-filled suitcase. It doesn't hint the case has a political aspect.