From the Columbus Dispatch:

Two top employees of Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann were fired and a third has resigned because of an internal investigation of sexual harassment complaints released this morning.

And Dann admitted he had a “romantic relationship” with an employee during a “difficult time” in his marriage.

“To (wife) Alyssa and my children, to the employees of the attorney general, I apologize for my human failings.”

He said he took “full responsibility” for the actions of his underlings.

“I am heartbroken by my failure to recognize the problems being created and by my failure to stop them,” he said.

The two longtime Dann friends who shared a Dublin-area condo with him were fired: Anthony Gutierrez, his general services director, and Leo Jennings III, his communications director.

A third longtime friend, Dann’s top nonlegal adviser, Edgar C. Simpson, resigned last night instead of being fired this morning. And Jessica Utovich, Dann’s former scheduler, also quit last night.

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