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By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 11:28 a.m. EST, Dec 10, 2008
Jack Morrison Jr., the chairman of the Summit County Board of Elections and a University of Akron trustee, has been indicted by a Summit County grand jury on seven counts of violating Ohio's ethics laws.
The violations are all misdemeanors.
The indictment relates to real estate in which Morrison, 56, of Silver Lake, ''allegedly had an undisclosed and prohibited interest while serving as a University of Akron trustee, and which the University sought to acquire,'' according to a news release issued by the Summit County Prosecutor's Office and the Ohio Ethics Commission.
Officials have been investigating the University of Akron's purchase of land from Morrison's son.
UA agreed to pay Morrison's son $110,000 for a rental house on Spicer Street, which represented a 40 percent profit in his year of ownership of the property. Morrison did not vote on UA's purchase of the property.
The release said UA and Morrison requested the investigation from which the indictment stemmed.
Morrison, active in the Summit County Republican Party, is the Munroe Falls law director and also is a partner in the Akron law firm Amer Cunningham.
Jack Morrison Jr., the chairman of the Summit County Board of Elections and a University of Akron trustee, has been indicted by a Summit County grand jury on seven counts of violating Ohio's ethics laws.
The violations are all misdemeanors.
The indictment relates to real estate in which Morrison, 56, of Silver Lake, ''allegedly had an undisclosed and prohibited interest while serving as a University of Akron trustee, and which the University sought to acquire,'' according to a news release issued by the Summit County Prosecutor's Office and the Ohio Ethics Commission.
Officials have been investigating the University of Akron's purchase of land from Morrison's son.
UA agreed to pay Morrison's son $110,000 for a rental house on Spicer Street, which represented a 40 percent profit in his year of ownership of the property. Morrison did not vote on UA's purchase of the property.
The release said UA and Morrison requested the investigation from which the indictment stemmed.
Morrison, active in the Summit County Republican Party, is the Munroe Falls law director and also is a partner in the Akron law firm Amer Cunningham.
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Sharon Twp, Oh
Posted 11:36 AM, 12/10/2008
Not very trustworthy are you Mr. Trustee. You make a case for bringing back public flogging.
Wadsworth, OH
Posted 11:38 AM, 12/10/2008
Yippee!!!!
AKRON, OH
Posted 11:43 AM, 12/10/2008
DUH !
akron, oh
Posted 12:27 PM, 12/10/2008
Now let see if the Prosecutor and the Beacon go after Don for the $3,000. steak dinner.
Posted 01:14 PM, 12/10/2008
Maybe with som eof the money he scammed away he can pay tuition at the University of Akron and take an ethics class.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:25 PM, 12/10/2008
My name is Jake, and any one who goes after the mayor is attacked by be. I am Jake.
But he his right: this has nothing to do with the mayor, yet.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:28 PM, 12/10/2008
"is"
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 01:41 PM, 12/10/2008
Thank goodness that the Nemers' deal for over $4 Million was completely above board.
I feel so much better about paying that amount as opposed to only $110K.
akron, oh
Posted 01:47 PM, 12/10/2008
JAKE,
CORRUPTION IS CORRUPTION, WHETHER IT BE MORRISON OR PLUSQUELLIC, JUST LOOKING FOR EQUAL TREATMENT.
JAKE, HOW WAS YOUR STEAK COOKED, WELL DONE, I BET!
Akron, Oh
Posted 01:52 PM, 12/10/2008
Hey Terry, I heard the mayor of Akron is responsible for global warming too. My name is Terry and if I don't like someone, I'm going to blame that person for everything including the great flood and the bubonic plague. Duuuuhhhhh!
Suwanee, ga
Posted 01:54 PM, 12/10/2008
Dave,
The Nemers got 1.8 for Manny and 2.1 for Joe. Please check the Summit County Probate Court and you'll see Manny is getting 1 mil after attorneys fees and court cost and Joe is getting 1.3 mil after the same fees and court costs.
The Nemers are getting 2.3 mil combined. The other 1.6 million is attorney fees and related costs paid by UofA.
They fought and got the same monies UofA was willing to pay them in the first place. The only ones making more monies out them fighting are their attorneys.
Posted 02:23 PM, 12/10/2008
This is nothing more then a political partisan move by Walsh via her Puppet Master Wayne Jones
Posted 02:50 PM, 12/10/2008
I only hope that Morrison resigns his board position on the Univ. of Akron Board of Trustees rather than having to be voted off. I would also hope that he resigns from the Board of Elections since he will eventually be required to resign. He was lucky in the Monea matter; I doubt he is going to be so lucky in this matter. If he does the right thing, he might be able to keep his license to practice law.
Akron, Oh
Posted 04:31 PM, 12/10/2008
YaYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! Now he needs to resign for real!! He's not Trustworthy!! Let's teach this is not right!!! PLEASE!!
Wadsworth, OH
Posted 04:51 PM, 12/10/2008
Is this guy another outstanding graduate of the University of Akron School of Law?
Posted 05:29 PM, 12/10/2008
Arshinkoff appointed Morrison to the U of A Board. Appointed him to the Board of Elections. He is the Republican Party's Secretary. Is this really who republicans need running the party? Are people getting that Arkinkoff only does things in his and his cronies' self interest?
All those who supported Arshinkoff in the last leadership struggle happy now? Arshinkoff is a phony. Do you know that the company building the new stadium has Arshinkoff as a paid lobbyist? This goes deeper than people think.
Follow the money!
Time to get AA out, out , out!
Akron, Oh
Posted 05:53 PM, 12/10/2008
try a little focus Robert. You're being a demogogue with your childish, "corruption is corruption" mantra.
Akron, Oh
Posted 05:58 PM, 12/10/2008
Robert, Arshinkoff (who is undeniably and idiot)cannot appoint anyone to the board of trustees to The University of Akron. Only the governor of Ohio can do that. What have you been smoking, Bobby boy?
Posted 06:26 PM, 12/10/2008
He should have to live in the city for the next 30 years or pay it back. Kind of like being a student again.
Posted 07:29 PM, 12/10/2008
yeah, who cares abotu this guy making a little over 40% profit when it was only 110 K ...the crook nemers got away with millions
Cuyahoga Falls, Oh
Posted 09:01 PM, 12/10/2008
Jake can you tell me how Alex litterally got every judicial and U of A appointed trustee approved by Taft? Alex has his hands in quite a bit of things here in Summit County, and he's destroying it. The best thing is though starting next year the board of trusties will slowly start getting replaced one by one and that will be less of Alex's influence.
The City of Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 10:52 PM, 12/10/2008
Well, la dee dah - a corrupt U of A official. What a shock!! Only a matter of time til they reel in Proenza?
Akron, Oh
Posted 03:37 AM, 12/11/2008
John, If that is a question, then the answer is no I cannot tell you because Alex did not get people appointed to the board of UA. Even if he did (and he didn't), getting soemone appointed and actually appointing him are two different things. Robert claims that Alex appointed Morrison to the board of UA. That is an absurd statement. Now can you tell me how Allex got Morrison appointed? Or, was your question an honest one and you really don't know?
Akron, Oh
Posted 03:38 AM, 12/11/2008
And again. this had nothing to do with the mayor. Idiots and the feeding frenzy
Posted 07:16 AM, 12/11/2008
Mr. Morrison, along with the University,
requested this investigation to begin with. If he had anything to hide do you really think he would have made that move? Sounds to me like SOMEONE has it our for him! It sounds like like his son put a lot of money into the home, not to mention the years of rent he lost on the deal. Does anyone really think he made such a great profit on the sale? Also, the house belonged to his son not Mr. Morrison. Why should he or anyone else pay any money back? Add the numbers, look at the facts! This is so blown up! I think someone out there is jealous of Morrisons success and will do anything to destroy him. I SMELL A RAT!!
akron, oh
Posted 07:32 AM, 12/11/2008
Jake (Steak) I hear Warner will be releasing, Friday, some of Plusquellic's bar tabs off the City issued Visa. Interesting several at Wayne Jones' owned Bricco (source, Ohio Liqour License)
Also more undocumented Plane trips will follow.
Maybe people might be intereted in Plusquellic's $10,000. China trip.
Akron, OH
Posted 07:54 AM, 12/11/2008
Hmmm, so what are the seven charges??? Nice of the ABJ to print a short fantastic story, without any facts for folks to read.
For the Nemer haters: The Nemers got their due, because they stood up for their rights and negotiated a settlement. Live with it, while in the soup line.
I don't know how Arshinkoff got into this. I guess a few demoncritters still can't live with the idea that their party doesn't have all of the best ideas.
The city hall hero!! Yup, I can't wait for him to be investigated. It's a question of time.
He's been fleecin' the taxpayers so long, he believes its a god given right.
