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McGookey asks Pattakos: Where’s the evidence?

Ashli Ford’s attorney starting to sound a lot like her: All claim; no substance

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Matt Westerhold
Sep 29, 2026
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SANDUSKY — She calls herself the “Screenshot Queen,” but courtroom observers have begun referring to Ashli Ford as the “Queen of Delay.”

Following a 90-minute hearing Monday morning, Erie County Common Pleas Court Judge Beverly McGookey took under advisement defense attorney Peter Pattakos’s motion to dismiss Ford’s mortgage fraud case and an added 13th charge of perjury under claims of double jeopardy.

Ford and her husband arriving in courtroom Monday. (Photo/Matt Westerhold)
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