Former justices appear at WSU Law event
Three former Michigan Supreme Court Justices – Marilyn J. Kelly, James L. Ryan and Clifford Taylor – will explore the First Amendment contours of money as speech on Tuesday, September 9 at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit.
Another featured guest will be NPR reporter Peter Overby.
The free event will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer.
For more information, contact John P. Jacobs at 313.965.1900 or jpj@jacobsdiemer.com.
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Court: Officer can’t be sued for discrimination
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a Dayton police officer can’t be sued individually as part of a sex discrimination case.
At issue in the court’s divided ruling were complaints of age- and sex-discrimination by a female police officer against the department and her supervisor.
The court’s recent 4-3 decision said the portion of Ohio law governing employment discrimination places liability on a government entity but not its individual employees.
Justice Judith French, writing for the majority, says the court’s decision relates only to law dealing with discrimination by a government entity and says individual employees can still be sued under different circumstances.
Justice Paul Pfeiffer in a dissent said the supervisor was liable because he was acting in the department’s interest.
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Money manager gets 15 years in fraud case
CINCINNATI (AP) — A southwest Ohio money manager accused of bilking 141 investors in a Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $34.5 million in restitution.
U.S. District Judge Herman Weber said he wanted to send a “loud, emphatic message” to fraudsters with the sentence of Glen Galemmo .
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Galemmo sat silently with his five children and wife watching. He and his attorney had urged a sentence of six years.
Prosecutors said he used new investors’ money to pay earlier investors, and fabricated glowing monthly reports about his Queen City Investments. He pleaded guilty in January to wire fraud and money laundering counts.
For the first time Thursday, he apologized to investors.
“A day does not go by when I don’t think about the investors, family members and others who have been directly affected by my conduct,” Galemmo said. “I know that all this pain and suffering has been caused solely by me.”
He still faces multiple civil lawsuits seeking to regain investors’ money. Bank accounts totaling $1.5 million were seized, along with five vehicles and property. Weber said Galemmo will be expected to continue paying back investors after his release.
Investor Gary Frey said he thought the sentence was fair, but not satisfactory.
“It’s still only 31 days per investor,” said Frey. He said he and his wife lost some $200,000 from their savings from some 80 years of work between them.
“In his speech, he said he was sorry six times, but I think he was just sorry that he got caught,” Frey said.
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