Rooster in Review: Round 2 with Dubious Dave Dobos

In an unsurprising turn of events, the man later claimed to have extensive ties to the hustlers' paradise known as Marion, Ohio, the City of Kings.

Thank you to all the old and new subscribers to The Rooster this week. One man with a GoPro camera can do a lot of work inside the Ohio Statehouse, which legal experts call “A Free Speech Zone.”

One man that has drawn my ire is State Rep. Dave Dobos (R-Hilltop). As Jake Zuckerman and Jeremy Pelzer of cleveland.com exposed, Dobos spent 30 years — which included stints on the Columbus Public City Schools Board of Education as a member and president — lying about obtaining a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In our first encounter, which you can view over here, Dobos hilarious claimed, “They elected me,” and said he brought “numerous other attributes to the table.” I asked him why he lied for 30 years, and he promptly ended the encounter.

Well, I caught Dubious Dave in the hallways on Wednesday. I asked him if his wages were being garnished—a fair question considering he has a $1 million judgment against him relating to a 2011 fraud lawsuit he “mistakenly” forgot to claim on his Ohio Legislative Ethics form.

He didn’t exactly deny the accusation:

Dobos and I spoke later when I had the camera put away. He claimed to want to know the man behind The Rooster as it was the only name offered by his colleagues about me.

In a hilarious turn of events, Dobos claimed to have spent much of his childhood with his cousins on Uhler Road in Marion, Ohio, which would place him right around the corner from my childhood home.

The City of Kings, for the unfamiliar, is a den of iniquity filled with hustlers, desperados, and hombres of various toughness. It’s unsurprising that a con artist like Dobos would have connections to Marion.

I will speak with him again and relay our conversation to the faithful members of the Patriots Caucus. If you’ve been on the fence about financially supporting this humble project, please consider this opportunity as City Council loathes me and state legislators want me tried for treason:

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This week in Ohio Man…

Listen, if you’re going to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, make sure not to take pictures in a literal tub of illicit money.

One Ohio man learned the hard way this week.

From George Glover of businessinsider.com:

An Ohio man who pled guilty in January to stealing more than 712 bitcoin from a computer held by the US government was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday.

Gary Harmon, 31, must also give up crypto holdings and other properties valued at over $20 million by today's market prices, the US Justice Department said.

Harmon's older brother Larry was charged in February 2020 with laundering over $300 million of crypto by operating the Darknet-based service Helix – and pled guilty 18 months later.

In April 2020, Gary Harmon used his brother's credentials to steal over 712 bitcoin by recreating eight crypto wallets stored on a device held by the Internal Revenue Service.

The scheme probably seemed so easy when he thought about it. But stealing directly from the Internal Revenue Service—after they had already popped your brother—is a move he’ll regret unless he keeps some of those assets hidden from seizure.

In that case, four years in federal prison will probably be a walk in the park.

This week in The Rooster…

• Anti-abortion zealots have no answers for the future they want. An interview with Ohio Right to Life president and puppy mill lobbyist Michael Galadonkis in which he admits he would force a 10-year-old to carry her rapist’s baby to term.

• What an astroturf operation looks like. Inside a feud between Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and Rep. Jon Cross (R-Kenton), a surprising advocate for public schools.

• The Swamphouse shooting gallery is open for business, and business is good. Interviews with Reps. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati), Jay Edwards (R-Nelsonville), and Speaker Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) following the passing of the $88 billion budget. It also features bust-up videos on State Reps. Steve Demetrieu (R-Bainsbridge), Adam Matthews (R-Lebanon), Sarah Fowler Arthur (R-Ashtabula), Mean Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) and Gary Click (R-Vickery).

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