Former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul may have collected $500,000 from workers while in office

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul agreed to pay $131,000 in restitution when he was sentenced this year for theft in office, but a state investigators' file says he may have accepted more than half a million dollars in cash from his employees.

State officials last week released a 1,000-page file on the criminal investigation of McFaul, offering the most detailed view to date of how the former sheriff misbehaved in office. The file paints a picture of a man who began enriching himself soon after he pinned on his sheriff's badge 30 years ago and continued to grab as much cash as he could until the day in 2009 when he had to resign in disgrace.