Many Ohioans, asked to think of a state agency where ethical behavior would be a particularly high priority, probably would name the attorney general’s office. It is the top state law enforcement agency, after all.

But, for some in Attorney General Marc Dann’s office, ethical behavior doesn’t even seem to have been an afterthought. That includes Dann, as Ohioans learned last week.

In some ways, it appears that the attorney general’s office has been a very, very rotten apple.

Dann has fired two top aides and forced another to resign, as a result of an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. A fourth aide resigned voluntarily. Dann himself has admitted that he had an affair with an employee of the attorney general’s office.

The attorney general, while admitting his affair, said he will remain in office.

Scandal in Dann’s office began to surface several months ago, when two women working there lodged complaints that