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Anthony O. Calabrese, III
Anthony O. Calabrese III is a partner at Vorys, Sater Seymour & Pease, a prominent Columbus, Ohio law firm with a large Cleveland practice. Mr. Calabrese focuses on public law, that is, negotiations and contracts with governmental bodies such as municipalities, state agencies and county governments. It was in the context of this practice that he crossed paths with both John Wagner, and through John Wagner, Level Propane. Wagner had been involved with a landfill in Ravenna, Ohio, which had been cited for failure to adhere to capacity limits to which it was subject in a closure plan. Its closure was required because, as an unlined landfill, it had be capped off to prevent leaching into the groundwater which was the water supply for surrounding cities, among which was Kent, Ohio.
Wagner, we suspect, traded exoneration regarding the landfill violations, which had reached a crescendo with indictment and arrest warrant of his wife, Cynthia Wagner, for his efforts to pull Level Propane into the ruinous conflict with the State of Ohio over consumer pricing issues. Now, Calabrese has been named in a bribery scandal involving the sale of the Ameritrust tower to Cuyahoga County, which was owned by none other than the late Richard Jacobs.
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