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Rooting for prison time: Family breaks silence on Ashli Ford ahead of re-trial

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Matt Westerhold
Nov 10, 2026
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SANDUSKY — The people who know her best—Ashli Ford’s birth family—will be rooting for prosecutors at the errant podcaster’s re-trial next year on mortgage fraud and forgery charges.

She’s not a victim of prosecutorial misconduct as she claims, they said, and she’s been tormenting them for as long as they can remember. They are tired and weary of her, and are hopeful that the outcome at trial will result in a conviction.

Some family members are emphatic: Ford needs to be in a prison cell, if only to protect her two children from her influence, and society from her scheming ways, they say. Other family members are not as blunt, but they too said they believe she needs to be stopped. All of them are reluctant to talk about Ashli.

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