From the Columbus Dispatch:

The figure at the center of the scandal that toppled former Attorney General Marc Dann from office likely will serve 45 days in prison, but prosecutors insisted yesterday that his plea bargain doesn’t close the book on charges stemming from Dann’s troubled term.

Anthony Gutierrez, who was Dann’s general services director, pleaded guilty yesterday to two felony and four misdemeanor charges alleging that he used state computers, vehicles and employees to assist in his private construction business and used Dann’s campaign account to subsidize his living expenses.

Prosecutors agreed to drop four charges, including two felony counts that Gutierrez cheated the state’s workers’ compensation system by misstating the number of employees at his construction company.

The deal requires that Gutierrez cooperate fully in any investigations and prosecutions of other figures from Dann’s scandal-shortened term as Ohio’s top lawman.

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