Welch is accused of recording more than 350 hours on Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Corrections time clocks over a 10-month period, beginning in April 2022, when he was not actually working, Fornshell said.
“Instead, Welch spent some of the ‘on the clock’ hours conducting his secondary employment as an adjunct professor,” he said.
Sinclair Community College confirmed that Welch was an instructor from Aug. 30, 2018, to Dec. 11, 2022.
ODRC conducted an administrative investigation and referred the case to the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Office of Criminal Investigation.
The ODRC has not yet provided information on how long Welch was employed by the prisons, his length of time in the deputy warden role, his base salary nor how the overtime was approved for payment.
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