Prosecutor Bill Mason hasn't prosecuted ex-lawyer who misappropriated $300,000

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason has known Christopher McCauley for two decades: Mason was in McCauley's law school class in the 1980s, rented office space from him in the 1990s, represented him in a 1997 foreclosure, paid him for campaign work in 2002 and 2003 and employed him in the prosecutor's office in 2004 and 2005.

What he has not done is prosecute him, even though the Ohio Supreme Court's disciplinary arm ruled that McCauley misappropriated more than $300,000 from his clients and kept it for his own use -- partly while in Mason's employment.