Dave Yost: "is actually representing the drug companies that have killed our kids"

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is actually representing the drug companies that have killed our kids

Dave Yost · 2018 Attorney General campaign TV ad about Steve Dettelbach's law firm, BakerHostetler · October 2018 · Race: Attorney General of Ohio

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misleading

WSYX ABC6 (Columbus), October 17, 2018 · read the check

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The record does not settle it

Checked against No record can settle this sentence: who a lawyer's firm represents is a matter of court filings, but "the drug companies that have killed our kids" is a characterization of those clients that no court record makes.

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Context

BakerHostetler did represent opioid manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals; Dettelbach was personally walled off from that matter and took a pay cut to avoid working on it.

Topics: Opioid crisis, Legal practice.

Other claims by Dave Yost

laid off cops, and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets

2010 campaign video advertisement · September 3, 2010 · PolitiFact: Barely True

Every claim filed under Dave Yost

Sources

Fact-checking ads in the race for Ohio attorney general · WSYX ABC6 (Columbus) · 2018-10-17 · accessed 2026-09-19
Audit search · Ohio Auditor of State · accessed 2026-10-15

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