From the Columbus Dispatch:

Richard Cordray, ever the opportunist, smelled blood.

It was the summer of 2007 and then-Attorney General Marc Dann was just a few months into his term. But Dann was failing as Ohio’s top lawman, and press accounts were beginning to detail his blunders.

Cordray, a fellow Democrat and the state treasurer at the time, was preparing to take on Dann for his job in the 2010 Democratic primary, Dann said in an interview he granted to investigators April 27 as part of the criminal investigation of the former attorney general. Dann disclosed Cordray’s aspirations while discussing his own political operation, which got Dann into legal trouble.

Dann said he worked assiduously to lock down support from Democrats and law-enforcement officials to deter Cordray from challenging him.

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