Dann staffer reprimanded for e-mail

Dann staffer reprimanded for e-mail

YOUNGSTOWN — Though Attorney General Marc Dann’s senior staffers occasionally use colorful language in their e-mails to each other, Leo Jennings III, the office’s communications director, said he crossed the line with one he wrote.

That e-mail led to a letter of reprimand.

“I should have been reprimanded,” Jennings said. “I could have expressed myself better. It was an improper use of language. I absolutely deserved to be reprimanded. I don’t disagree with the decision of the attorney general.”

The Dayton Daily News reported that Jennings sent a Sept. 7 e-mail to Steve Lamantia, then the acting superintendent of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, about the latter’s failure to keep him informed about an investigation into the death of a Summit County inmate.

The newspaper reported that the e-mail read: “Steve the fact that you thought you could go around me to Jennifer Brindisi [an AG spokeswoman] shows what an absolute [expletive] incompetent insubordinate moron you really are. You’ve completely botched this, I know it you know [it] and everyone else is going to know it you coward. If you have something to say to me call me and say it to me you [expletive]. Leo”

For the complete story, see Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.