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Josh Sweigart investigates government waste, fraud and abuse as a member of the I-Team.
His stories focus on government spending in southwest Ohio, as well as the statehouse and U.S. Capitol.
Sweigart has won several awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press Society of Ohio.
He has worked for Cox Media Group since 2007, and in addition to writing for the Dayton Daily News has covered Clark County government for the Springfield News-Sun and Butler County government for the Hamilton JournalNews and Middletown Journal.
He also collaborates on I-Team stories with WHIO-TV.
Sweigart is a graduate of Wright State University and Wayne High School in Huber Heights.
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Sponsor: Disgraced treasurer blew whistle on superintendent
Officials with the sponsor for seven charter schools where administrators are accused of stealing more than $2 million told this newspaper they acted as soon as concerns surfaced that money was being misspent.“It was a learning experience as we went,” said Aaron Kinebrew, assistant director of Educational Resource Center of ...
Millions spent on oversight for troubled charter schools
A Cincinnati nonprofit that sponsored seven charter schools where administrators were accused of stealing more than $2 million says it is keeping a closer eye on the schools it is supposed to oversee. But a decade after Ohio handed financial oversight of charter schools to sponsors such as the Cincinnati-based ...
Covered bridge conference costs taxpayers $90K
A year after gaining national infamy as home to the “covered bridge to nowhere,” the Miami Valley this week is hosting a national conference on covered bridges that is getting new attention from budget hawks. The Second National Covered Bridge Conference runs today through Saturday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel ...
GovWatch: Speeding cameras, state parks hijinx and federal fraud
Some claim Dayton’s speeding cameras are unconstitutional. Others simply decry them as unfair. But the most important question some ask is: Are they accurate? In response to a reader request, the I-Team used Ohio’s open records laws to obtain more than a year’s worth of calibration records for the 10 ...
State to spend millions sprucing up shooting ranges
Flush with funds from skyrocketing gun sales, the Ohio Division of Wildlife plans to spent up to $20 million over the next several years adding and renovating shooting ranges across the state. Most of the money for the project comes from a special tax on guns and ammunition that is ...
State investigator loses job over misuse of car
Douglas Edwards of Springfield resigned as head of the State Medical Board’s investigative unit this month after Ohio’s inspector general found that Edwards misused his state-issued vehicle. The inspector general reports Edwards couldn’t account for more than 3,000 miles on the vehicle from October 2011 through September 2012, and that ...
541 area bridges rated obsolete
There are 541 bridges across southwest Ohio that are rated functionally obsolete by the government, state records show (See the full list and more details on each bridge here). This is the same federal rating given to the Skagit River bridge in Washington state that collapsed Thursday. Across Ohio, there ...
Husted: Voter fraud exists, not epidemic
A first-time tally of voter fraud across Ohio found 135 cases referred for criminal investigation following the 2012 presidential election, including 20 people who state officials say voted in Ohio and another state.The report, released Thursday by the Ohio Secretary of State, listed 22 referrals to law enforcement from southwest ...
State accuses 14 daycares of fraud, pulls funding
An unprecedented fraud crackdown has led Ohio officials to cut off payments to 14 child care centers since October — including one in Dayton and five in the Cincinnati area — for allegedly charging the taxpayer-funded program for children not in their care. These centers are accused of overbilling the ...
Auditor helping 1,400 small governments save money
Small government bodies such as libraries, planning commissions and tiny villages will save some of their public dollars under a new program that drastically cuts the costs of state-mandated audits. Since the program was launched in December, 11 governments in this region have cut the cost of their audits by ...
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