Crooked Sheriff has his cronies shred the evidence

update 1/29/10: read the real story at DaytonOS: Dayton Daily Dems and the Sheriff. (it’s better written, as well – big surprise there)

Because, you know, the Dayton Daily News can’t afford to alienate the moneyed, the connected, the powerful. Who would they interview? No time to shine a light in the dark, jobs are on the line, right? They don’t want this scandal to get legs, so the traditional, decaying, decrepit political power structure that has ruined Montgomery County wants to bury it. Here’s their Disneyfied “version” of the story:

Attempt to destroy foreclosure sales files was a ‘mistake,’ Plummer says

Phil Plummer

By Lynn Hulsey, Staff Writer Updated 11:22 PM Thursday, January 28, 2010

DAYTON — Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer’s office attempted to have 25 boxes of foreclosure sales files destroyed last week in the midst of a Common Pleas Court inquiry into the pay of sheriff’s sale appraisers, according to documents obtained by the Dayton Daily News.

The request to destroy 2007-2008 records, which was rejected by the county’s records manager on Jan. 20, violated the county’s records retention policy requiring that foreclosure documents be kept for two years after the sale.

The county also prohibits destroying any record “which pertains to any pending case, claim, action or request.”