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Michael A. Fox, former Butler county commissioner and state lesiglator, was indicted today on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and tax violations. The charges were handed out to Fox and his personal friend, attorney Robert Shuler, from Dublin.
Schuler is accused of sending $460,000 to Fox after his firm, NORMAP Telecommunication LLC, won a fiber-optic contract in 2001. He is accused of lying to a grand jury and filing false income tax returns.
The charges that have landed Fox in hot water stem from a 2005 scandal, when Orlando Carter of Dynus, another fiber-optics company hoping to land the contract, was accused of improperly securing a multimillion-dollar loan from a bank.
Carter and four others, all connected with Dynus Corp., have been convicted for their part in the scandal.
Karin Verbruggen, a Dynus employee, earlier this month was ordered to share nearly $4.1 million in restitution costs with Jim Smith and Carter, the men she reported to while working at the now-defunct Bond Hill corporation.
Verbruggen admitted forging signatures, including one for the former county auditor, to misrepresent who was responsible for a shady, multimillion-dollar loan between Dynus and National City.
This is not the first scandal involving Michael A. Fox. He has had past ethics charges and other troubles that resulted in his resigning this year as the director of Butler County's Childrens Services.
In 2004, the Fox highway (129) was renamed The Bulter County Veteran's Highway, after scandals involving him.
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