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The Ohio Department of Public Safety’s former top attorney has been fired for snooping on emails to his agency from the state inspector general’s office and an Ohio newspaper. Joshua Engel, who has been at the center of several high-profile investigations pitting his department against Inspector General Tom Charles in the past year, had intercepted emails since last October, said Public Safety director Tom Stickrath. (more)