Cordray says Youngstown AG office will remain open

YOUNGSTOWN — Despite a change in leadership, the Ohio Attorney General’s satellite office in downtown Youngstown is staying open.

Attorney General Richard Cordray, a Democrat from Grove City, Ohio, said today he will keep the office at 20 Federal Place, opened in July 2007 by then-Attorney General Marc Dann.

Dann, a Democrat from Liberty, had promised during the 2006 attorney general campaign that he would open a satellite office in the Mahoning Valley.

There are 21 employees with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and 15 other attorney general workers in a variety of capacities at the downtown office at the former Phar-Mor Centre at 20 W. Federal St..

Cordray said he visited the Youngstown office today to “reassure the employees” that the office isn’t closing.

“It makes sense for the attorney general to be somewhat decentralized” from Columbus, he said.

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