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A veteran Cincinnati officer's police powers have been suspended after her body cam captured her saying a racial slur while on duty and in uniform.
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An officer shot and killed a 34-year-old man in Madisonville on Saturday evening, Interim Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said.
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In a Facebook post, the agency said, "Our presence at the leadership table was feeling to us more and more like an honorary courtesy than an active and collaborative partnership. By the end of March, we had reached the end of our rope and decided it was time for us to move on."
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City officials will ask former Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld to repay his salary and benefits from 2020 and 2021, valued at roughly $71,500, after a jury found him guilty of bribery and attempted extortion last week.
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A jury on Friday found the former Cincinnati council member guilty on one charge of bribery and one charge of extortion. He was found not guilty of both counts of honest services wire fraud and one count each of bribery and extortion.
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Both sides rested their case Wednesday and the fate of the former Cincinnati City Council member rests in the hands of three men and nine women.
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"I did never and I would never under any circumstances sell my vote or trade my vote," the former Cincinnati City Council member said while being questioned by his own defense team.
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Sittenfeld’s attorney, Charlie Rittgers, planned to call five witnesses to testify Thursday, which poses the question of whether Sittenfeld himself would take the stand.
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The prosecution’s last two witnesses delivered the most explosive testimony of the trial so far: well-known Democratic political strategist Jared Kamrass; and Laura Brunner, CEO of The Port Authority of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority.
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Tuesday’s testimony peeled back the curtain on City Hall in a way that political experts had predicted since the trial began last week. Witnesses revealed the intense co-mingling of elected leaders with monied real estate developers, particularly at political fundraisers.