BY ANNE MICHAUD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Hamilton County prosecutor has issued a broad subpoena that confiscates all written and computer documents from the office of Thomas Quinn, who resigned last week as director of the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD).
The subpoena calls for all notes, letters, memoranda, e-mail messages, tapes and contents of his personal computer hard drive, as well as other material.
Agents for Prosecutor Joseph Deters arrived to clear out Mr. Quinn's office Thursday, a day after he resigned. They changed the locks on his office doors.
The subpoena also called on Michael Sweeney to testify before a grand jury. He is deputy director of the MSD.
The grand jury began its probe in mid-March, and this is the second set of records that the prosecutor's office has demanded. The first demand was more specific, calling for contracts and payment records related to work by JMA Consultants, as well as inter- departmental memos and correspondence regarding tap-in fee waivers.
Four other MSD employees have been called to testify, three from the planning and program management division, which oversees construction projects. The fourth is head of the engineering division, which supervises a storm-water removal program that JMA Consultants worked on.
MSD officials say the Mount Auburn-based engineering company has been unable to provide daily logs or time sheets to account for up to $113,000 in billings. JMA Consultants has said there is no basis for a criminal charge.
Mr. Quinn, 57, resigned last week, saying the mounting problems facing the agency had made it impossible for him to lead.
