New records show how Commissioner Hardesty was falsely implicated in hit-and-run, but not how it leaked

By Rebecca Ellis (OPB)
March 13, 2021 2:53 a.m. Updated: March 13, 2021 3:41 a.m.

The suspect told the dispatcher she was confident the driver that hit her was Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. The police cleared her the next day.