Corner regular Jonathan Adler intrigued some inquiring minds with his post about the retirement of left-wing Ohio political blogger Democracy Guy. In his retirement post, DG author Tim Russo wrote:

So what do you blog about when the local paper reduces your net worth to the worst mistake you’ve ever made in your entire life? Hmmm…well…good question. I’ll leave that for others to decide, because I think I’m done blogging for a while. A long while.

So what happened? Yesterday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer (I found it on Nexis, I can’t find the link) published an article about Ohio bloggers that included this brief mention of Russo:

Tim Russo
Hometown: Cleveland
Day job: Blogging
Web site: Democracyguy.com. Also helps organize Meetthebloggers.net.
Launched: 2005
What is it? Tough on Republicans, but nearly as tough on the Democratic power structure.
Net worth: Clever and insightful, but has the sharpest tongue in the blogosphere; trying to rebuild credibility lost when he was convicted of importuning in an Internet sex sting.

Apparently, Russo’s history was first uncovered in February by fellow Ohio political blogger Heights Mom, who wrote about it here. Russo’s case file is here.

UPDATE: There seem to be some problems with the link to Russo’s case. You can also click here and search by name.

UPDATE II: Adler posted a link to the Plain Dealer story yesterday.