Marc E. Dann (born March 12, 1962) is an American former politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the Attorney General of Ohio from 2007 until his resignation on May 14, 2008.

Dann was a leading critic of "Coingate," an investment plan in which $50 million of the state's workers compensation reserve fund was given to Republican Tom Noe, a politically connected coin dealer.

[citation needed] Dann was a vociferous critic of then-Attorney General Jim Petro, a Republican, who had been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission more than two years earlier that the SEC had serious reservations about investment practices at the BWC.

[2] Dann announced his candidacy for Attorney General of Ohio on November 14, 2005, saying he would use the office to both help local police and prosecutors deal with street crime and to actively and aggressively pursue white collar criminals.

In the general-election campaign, Montgomery tried to distance herself from the scandals of the Taft administration, while criticizing Dann for wanting to use the attorney general's office as a platform for activism.

In a television advertisement, the Montgomery campaign attacked Dann for the above-mentioned 2004 reprimand and for defending a man convicted of showing nude pictures to children.

[6] Dann faced criticism from the Mansfield News Journal and others for telling (Warren, Ohio) Tribune Chronicle reporter Steve Oravecz to "go ... fuck yourself"[7] at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

[citation needed] The article described how two people with ties to Dann's election campaign, including a woman who he raised as a daughter, were given state jobs.

According to the Associated Press, the Attorney General's office missed a legal deadline to join an appeal of a Medicaid-related court decision the state government opposes.

[8] A sexual harassment scandal arose during Dann's tenure as attorney general, eventually leading to his resignation.

[9][10] On May 2, 2008, following the firing and resignation of a number of his aides in a sexual harassment scandal, Dann admitted that he had had an extramarital affair with an unidentified subordinate in his office.

On the evening of May 5, Democratic Governor Strickland issued a statement which appeared to support Dann's impeachment should he decide not to resign.

[18] On May 5, 2008, the Columbus Dispatch reported that seven separate investigations were either underway or being considered in response to misconduct at the Attorney General's office.

[22] In March 2009, Dann and his campaign were each fined $1,000 by the Ohio Elections Commission for violating campaign-finance laws by using his political account for personal cell phones for his family and for security renovations to his Youngstown-area home.

In June 2009, Dann reached a plea agreement with the Ohio Inspector General, Thomas P. Charles, in which he pled guilty to a single count of misuse of campaign funds, for purchasing travel for family members to San Francisco for a vacation that was to be packaged with a political fundraiser, and paid another fine of $1000; the Commission agreed to accept the plea deal by a 5 to 1 vote.

Prior to filing criminal charges against Dann’s associates, including Leo Jennings, Anthony Gutierrez and Edgar Simpson, Charles filed complaints against Dann with the Elections Commission, alleging that he illegally used his political account to pay Leo Jennings, who used the money to pay for rent and utilities for the condominium they shared with Anthony Gutierrez.