The Insider reports:
Former car dealership owner turned GOP candidate Bernie Moreno, whose Ohio Senate race could determine whether Republicans regain control of the chamber, settled over a dozen wage theft lawsuits in the months before launching his campaign last year, according to court documents reviewed by Business Insider.
Those settlements came after a jury ordered Moreno to pay over $400,000 to two former employees at his Massachusetts dealership for failing to pay overtime in accordance with state labor laws.
As he faced those lawsuits, Moreno admitted in a deposition to shredding documents containing information that was potentially relevant to the case, despite being instructed to preserve records — drawing a rebuke from a state judge.
Read the full article. Moreno last appeared here in October 2023 when he lied that Ohio’s abortion rights ballot initiative allowed rapists to force their victims to get abortions without parental consent.
NEW: GOP OH-SEN candidate Bernie Moreno was sanctioned by a court in 2022 for destroying evidence as he faced wage theft lawsuits from over a dozen employees at his Massachusetts car dealership.https://t.co/IAemJKhyxf
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) January 19, 2024