The Center for Investigative Reporting and Phoenix New Times collaborated on an article revealing Ducey to be the scion of an infamous Ohio organized-crime family named Scott, whose illegal deeds have involved operating after-hours gambling clubs, bookmaking, numbers-running, extortion, loan-sharking, and other lucrative illicit activities.
Though the Ducey campaign has stonewalled New Times on all requests for comment, it has begrudgingly acknowledged to another news outlet the accuracy of the initial report.
This, while adhering to the candidate's prepackaged biography, depicting Ducey as, in the words of his stump speech "the son of a cop," raised in Toledo, Ohio with all-American "Midwestern values."
The truth is far more complex.
Indeed, since the October report, CIR and New Times have uncovered additional information that further undermines Ducey's glowing, Norman Rockwell-like self-portrait.
This new information involves both Ducey's "cop" father and Ducey's maternal uncle, William P. "Billy" Scott, a convicted bookie and cocaine user, who pleaded guilty in 2012 to international money laundering, in relation to an off-shore, online gambling empire he established in the 1990s on the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.
Ducey's biological father, Doug Roscoe, was in business with the Scott family, after marrying Ducey's mother Madeline Scott in 1963, but before he joined the Toledo Police Department in 1965.
Toledo's 1964 City Directory lists Roscoe as the proprietor of a restaurant, the Original Hot Dog on Dorr Street. Ducey's mom was the business' "secretary," according to the directory.
The directory lists Ducey's maternal grandmother, also named Madeline - who was investigated along with her husband William Scott and her son Billy Scott for illegal gambling - as president of the restaurant.
A William Scott is listed as both vice president and treasurer.
So before Roscoe applied to be a police officer with the Toledo Police Department, he and his wife were in business with his in-laws, the Scotts, who were involved in organized crime.
When Roscoe applied to be a TPD police officer in August 1965, his personnel file, obtained by New Times for this story, mentions that he had been the operator of Original Hot Dog on Dorr Street.
The file, partially redacted, notes the involvement of Roscoe's in-laws in the venture.
Roscoe was hired by the TPD in 1965 and served for 12 years, resigning from the force April 1977, without offering a reason why.
Two months before Roscoe left, he had been informed by a superior that according to police union rules, he could not work while on a leave of absence.
To what degree this information influenced his decision to leave the TPD is unknown.
During the time Roscoe was a cop, his in-laws the Scotts were getting raided, arrested, and investigated by federal, state, and local authorities on illegal gambling schemes.
Much of this was reported in Ducey's hometown daily newspaper, the Toledo Blade.
In our original article, CIR and New Times quoted several Blade pieces that recounted the Scott's exploits during the time Roscoe was a Toledo police officer.
Additionally, Ducey's great-uncle, Tony Paul Scott (alias Neufio Scott) was a major Toledo hoodlum, well known to members of Toledo's law enforcement community.
By the time of his death in 1993, Tony Paul had been stripped of his naturalized citizenship by the feds, his illegal fortune invested in property in his wife's name.
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The guilty are the only ones that think things are hidden.
if kamal can sleep her way to the white house then what's with a little organized crime
Doesn't sound good. BUT, what has Ducey himself done? You shouldn't be held accountable for what your family did/does, but for your own actions. Wonder how this came up after all these years?
MAMA CALLS.
Criminals for a Criminal party?.........There's no news there. Mrs. Pelosi is a Mafia Princess,is she not? Comes with the turf.
To say I am shocked would be a great big understatement. Until voters stop acting like sheep do to media bias all we can do is use conservative groups to post to members and share on their pages . I started Conservative Underground on FB and have been fought tooth and nail yet 72 hours later we are 223 strong. I cannot stress that the Tea party needs to reach out to groups like mine and form an administrator link to you all for help becoming party of your org independent has we understand our regions and people . Plu
You should start a backup group on this site. The censorship will get worse. Open a group here, we want to be a safe haven for those who will be taken down by the 'big tech folks'. You have a place on this site. Make use of it as you see fit.
being a crook and/or being part of a crime family is career enhancement for devildemocommiecrats!!!!!