"The subversion of taxpayer funds and resources was extensive and ranged from the obvious -- directing public employees to conduct campaign work while paid by the taxpayers, to the subtle -- issuing taxpayer-paid contracts for campaign work disguised as legitimate legislative work."

"It was clearly understood by these employees that the campaign work in question was part of their public employment and not something to relegate to after work hours or personal time."

Caucus employee Eric Webb "told the grand jury that after everyone who worked on the special election in 2005 got bonuses 'it became very apparent' to the caucus employees that 'if they volunteer they get a bonus.'"

"Every former member of Mike Veon's Capitol office who testified before the grand jury identified a culture wherein no distinction was made between campaign and legislative work. [Legislative aide] Karen Steiner testified that it was clear 'from the interview on' that campaign work would be part of your job."

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"Employees were required to stay late at work, doing little or nothing, but accumulating comp time hours that would later be used for campaign work."

Patrick Lavelle, titled as a research analyst and paid by the taxpayers a total of $176,943.12 with full benefits from 2004 to the end of 2006, appeared to have no other duties beyond fund-raising. ... Many of those who worked around him every day testified that they had never seen him do anything but fund-raising."

"By the summer of 2005 ... the message was out: campaign work was the way to get a bonus and move upward in the caucus. Furthermore, the scheme was putting on muscle, and it could be directed to any political campaign in which caucus leadership had an interest."

"While [Jeff] Foreman was employed as chief of staff to Rep. Veon, Foreman was also employed as a member of a law firm, Foreman & Foreman. The grand jury obtained the daily records from the law firm in regard to the number of hours that Foreman billed [his clients for and compared that to his state payroll records]. Foreman actually claimed to have worked more than 24 hours on three [separate] days in 2006."

"From the testimony and e-mail exchanges, it is obvious that Mike Veon, Jeff Foreman, Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink and Brett Cott used Veon's taxpayer-paid legislative staffs as a political machine. At taxpayer expense, Mike Veon was able to affect local, state and national elections."

"[Sean] Ramaley left his job as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Labor to run for the state [House]. Once Ramaley secured his party's nomination, Mike Veon encouraged Ramaley to accept a position as a legislative assistant in Veon's Beaver Falls district office. This would prove to be a 'no-work' job which allowed Ramaley to run his campaign directly from the taxpayer-funded district office with the assistance and direction of Veon's trained political operatives."