Josh Sweigart
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Josh Sweigart investigates government waste, fraud and abuse as a member of the I-Team.
His stories focus on government spending in southwest Ohio, as well as the statehouse and U.S. Capitol.
Sweigart has won several awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press Society of Ohio.
He has worked for Cox Media Group since 2007, and in addition to writing for the Dayton Daily News has covered Clark County government for the Springfield News-Sun and Butler County government for the Hamilton JournalNews and Middletown Journal.
He also collaborates on I-Team stories with WHIO-TV.
Sweigart is a graduate of Wright State University and Wayne High School in Huber Heights.
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Latest from Josh Sweigart
Charter schools pay off for CEO’s family
A Dayton Daily News investigation found that a company managing several taxpayer-funded charter schools in the area is a lucrative family business whose husband-and-wife management team makes more than $400,000 a year.The nonprofit, EdVantages, manages seven charter schools in Ohio, including schools in Trotwood, Middletown and Springfield. By law, these ...
Welfare costs fall 20 percent across Ohio
Tens of thousands of Ohioans have left the welfare rolls this year, saving taxpayers millions of dollars each month and putting enrollment at its lowest point since the benefit for the poor was reformed in the 1990s. A Dayton Daily News analysis found that area counties are mirroring this trend. ...
VA pension fund exploited
By hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets, some veterans are able to exploit a program meant to help low-income wartime vets with cash assistance. And hundreds of companies, some of whom may have predatory practices, are charging hefty fees to steer veterans through this loophole. These are the ...
County commision, Miami trustees, councilman among those who failed to file disclosure papers
A Butler County commissioner and a Middletown city councilman are among the dozens of area elected officials remiss in filing legally mandated forms disclosing their sources of income and potential conflicts of interest, according to a newspaper analysis of state data.The financial disclosure forms had to be filed by April ...
More stringent standards for meth cleanups proposed
The owners of properties that house meth labs could be forced to pay for an expensive, thorough cleanup of those structures if legislation expected to be introduced in the General Assembly next week becomes law.Currently, meth houses in Ohio are cleaned out by local or state authorities, but dangerous residue ...
Ex-charter school treasurer facing fed charges
COLUMBUS — Former charter school treasurer Carl Shye is facing federal chargers of embezzling $472,579 from four Ohio schools, including two in Dayton, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges say Shye embezzled the funds from the now-closed Nu Bethel Center of Excellence and New City Community school in Dayton, as ...
Bill tough on misuse of public funds
COLUMBUS — State lawmakers Tuesday rolled out a bill that would increase penalties for government and charter school finance officers who mismanage public funds. It also would cut off state funding to entities declared unauditable by the state. The bill would create a process for the removal of county auditors ...
Identity thieves file false returns to steal refunds
If you haven’t filed your tax return yet, there’s a growing chance someone may have done it for you. The head of a federal oversight agency this month told Congress that nearly a million fraudulent tax returns last year — worth $6.5 billion — involved identity theft.Victims are numerous across ...
Vast majority of misspent public money not recovered
State watchdogs tout their ability to hound out misspent public money. But when it comes to getting that money back, state officials have been largely toothless, an investigation by this newspaper has found.Of roughly $72 million the state auditor’s office has singled out in audits of local government entities as ...
Counties finding out touch-screen voting systems are costly to maintain
Counties across Ohio could save millions of dollars by requiring voters to use paper ballots instead of touch-screen voting machines, a Dayton Daily News analysis of a state audit has found. A recent state audit of Butler County contends that the county could save more than $4.5 million over five ...
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