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Dynus timeline
Pulse Journal reporter Lindsey Hilty will continue to cover the Lang trial today, Feb. 2, in federal court in Cincinnati.
In light of Lang’s trial, which is expected to last five days, we have updated our Dynus timeline which connects a lot of Butler County officials with this scandal. Click the hyperlink to review it.
It starts on Aug. 9, 2004, when then-Butler County Auditor Kay Rogers signed a mutual confidentiality agreement with Jim Smith, chief marketing officer of CBS Technologies, which later became Dynus.
In late 2005, the beginning of the end of Dynus starts with two lawsuits — one by Fifth Third and one by National City Bank. Dynus files a counter suit, but drops it and never refiles.
Rogers is outed in March 2006 and she pleads guilty in 2008 to bank and mail fraud, and tax evasion.
The still-evolving timeline continues this week with Lang’s trial, and will still grow when Fox’s scheduled trial happens in April.
Read the timeline and tell me what you think.
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By Another Pulse cub reporter
February 2, 2011 6:30 PM | Link to this
Mike, get back on this one. Lindsey’s very nice, but she’s enamored by anyone that has a title. Like a West Chester elected official (Cates) would honestly access another West Chester elected official (Lang). Pretty naive. She keeps it up and she’ll be known as Hollywood Hilty, reporter For the Stars. Read the above - very weak. What was she thinking? Anything happen at the trial today?? Isn’t it reasonable that people will have to look at cincinnati.com
By Comments re: Timeline
February 2, 2011 8:59 PM | Link to this
Could you answer these questions? From what period to what period was Lang a registered lobbyist? What was the date of the WC trustee meeting that Lang pitched fiberoptics to the township? (have minutes of that meeting? WCCTV videotape?) When did he become the VP of Finance? When did Scott Owens become the VP of Governmental Affairs? Is there any documentation in WC of the proposed WC fiberoptic network? What date did Gary Cates introduce his “special guests” Orlando Carter and Scott Owens to the Senate (Nov. ‘04 or ‘05?)?
By null
February 3, 2011 5:18 PM | Link to this
What happened to the comments on the blogs about the interim prosecutor?
By started
February 6, 2011 9:51 AM | Link to this
no, this started when lang and smith (already business partners)decided to enrich themselves by convincing kay rogers that there was cash to be made for all of them by getting a contract with butler county and of course orlando carter actually finalizing the deals and making payments to lang. i believe this all would have been washed under the table had commissioner furmon not brought in the FBI. Question: what was the bank thinking giving out the loans in the first place ?