Anyway, Stow muni court Judge Kim Hoover will decide on probation and fines and possible jail time (the max penalty is 30 days in jail and a $250 fine).
Hoover ordered a full background check that he said could take between five and seven weeks. Campanelli will be sentenced after the investigation is complete. Campanelli apologized after the hearing.“I’m sorry to the woman that I frightened,” Campanelli said. “I am mortified by my behavior and take complete responsibility for my actions.”
[snip]He also apologized to his family members, friends and colleagues. He called the support from his family “incredible.”
“I let them down and I know how they feel,” he said. “My goal is to somehow turn this into a positive and to become a better person, somebody worthy of their support.”
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(Original story 12/14/2015) Crain’s Cleveland Business publisher John Campanelli, who was placed on administrative leave last week when a public indecency citation came to light, is charged for an additional incident of public indecency. This one occurred outside Campanelli’s Hudson home on Nov. 7, nine days before the incident reported last week. The latest news comes via Cleveland.com which details the bizarre explanation for the encounter between Campanelli and an Akron Beacon Journal delivery woman:
John A. Campanelli, 46, exposed his genitals to a woman delivering the Akron Beacon Journal to his home on Glen Echo Drive about 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 7, according to a police report.Campanelli met the woman at the end of his driveway to receive the newspaper as he had done many times before, the report says. This time, Campanelli greeted her with his genitals exposed through his plaid, flannel pajamas, the report says.
[snip]Campanelli told investigators that he usually urinates in his backyard when he checks on his chickens in the morning and that he may have forgotten to put his genitals back into his pajamas before meeting the deliverywoman, according to the report.
She declined to press charges because she didn’t know if it was an accident. Campanelli asked police if he could simply apologize to her.
A police report says that On Nov. 16, Campanelli exposed his genitals “at least” three times to a 23-year-old female employee of the Aurora Inn. Campanelli has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is scheduled in court for a pre-trial hearing on January 5.
Campanelli, in an apology posted on social media after news of the previous incident was reported, said he was mortified by his actions, but took full responsibility for them. He attributed them to a childhood trauma or traumas that he’d been keeping secret for 30 years.
He told a reporter from the Portage County Record-Courier that his issues as a boy “manifested themselves in this kind of way.”
Campanelli, 46, has been publisher of Crain’s since 2013. Before that, he worked at the Plain Dealer as a reporter and editor for many years .
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2015.
Not buying this “childhood trauma” bullshit from a 46 year old man. Good luck, though.
Right?? At that age you know right from wrong….Just sayin’
The police in hudson and aurora have nothing better to do but persecute a guy showing off his junk? Was it really that terrible? I mean these two women are acting like they’ve never seen a mound of human flesh with some hair on it. All these damn christians and their morality. You mean to tell me that these holier than thou women have not clicked on plenty of porn on the internet and tv, but now they feel the need to destroy someone because they were ‘offended’. Women want equal rights except they don’t act like it. Come on women, girls gone wild will pay you for public nudity, but a man gets crucified for showing off his talley wagger… Plus why the f’ didn’t the newspaper lady tell him that his junk was showing?
I heard Campanelli’s cock is so huge the Plain Dealer union wanted to give it a byline.
Campanelli’s dick is so big the Coast Guard uses it in the winter to break up ice on Lake Erie.
Campenelli’s manthing is so big that surveyors use it as the landmark division point between Summit and Cuyahoga counties.
Campenelli’s dick is so small he has to show it to woman thinking maybe they would feel sorry for him and his baby penis. I guess a baby penis could be considered childhood trauma after all
The judge should order him to buy at least a dozen pairs of Tommy John underwear.
I have always liked John’ s editorializing . I think he shows great insight on pressing issues. I hope they hire him back. I think this whole innocent playful stuff doesn’t ruin his career. A lot of men have done MUCH worse and gotten away with it . This kind of behavior happens often in ITALY and other European countries and they think nothing of it. Nudity in Europe is ok on T V but not gun violence.