A $7 billion betrayal: Dennis Murray Sr. calls it a 'dirty deal' for Lake Erie’s shoreline
Ohio's 1998 land grab cost lakefront property owners dearly; in Sortino vs. Calfee, Halter & Griswold, senior partner aims to win it back in class action
SANDUSKY — In a quiet corner of Sandusky, Dennis Murray Sr.—the patriarch of the Murray & Murray firm and a man who speaks of the Constitution with the reverence of a holy text—is detailing what he calls a “dirty deal.”
At the center of the storm is the Sortino case, a legal saga that began with the State of Ohio essentially seizing the private beaches of 15,500 property owners and ended with a settlement so lopsided it defies logic. George Sortino, of Sandusky, is one of those property owners.
