Chief of staff, assistant resign from Taylor's office

Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor's Chief of Staff Laura Horowitz Johnson and an administrative assistant, Heather Brandt, have resigned.

According to multiple reports, the resignations were related to alleged time sheet discrepancies revealed as the office was responding to a public records request.

Plunderbund.com reports that Johnson and Brandt had been billing the state for hours they were not working.

Plunderbund said it filed a public records request after receiving a tip that Johnson and Brandt had been stealing state time, working on a political campaign while being paid by the state.

The cases have been referred to Ohio Inspector General Randy Meyer.

"As a former Auditor of State, I know that when public employees perform work away from their assigned work stations, there has to be some measure of accountability for the work hours the employees claim and for which they are paid with the public's dollars," Taylor said in a letter to Meyer.

For more information, go to http://www.plunderbund.com/2014/06/06/plunderbund-record-request-results-in-resignation-of-lg-mary-taylors-chief-of-staff/

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