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In six months, Senate President Rob McColley has gone from one of the most influential politicians in Ohio to largely invisible as Vivek Ramaswamy runs his campaign as a Silicon Valley-style branding exercise.

>It’d be troubling if the raid served as a capstone on the investigation and that turn of phrase wasn’t an intentional sleight of hand, considering media reports have skipped over the wildest part of the story.

>The raid, which occurred at 72581 Uniontown Flushing Rd, is well known in Belmont County drug circles as “Crack Palace.”

>It’s also owned by 82-year-old former United States Assistant Energy Secretary Robert H. Gentile, a lifetime Ohio Republican.

>According to one well-placed legal source in Belmont County, Dunn was on the scene when deputies and supporting agencies raided the home, which is his primary residence that’s also listed as defendant Dunn’s address in court documents.

>Gentle first served as Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement at the Department of the Interior under President George H.W. Bush. His home’s walls also bear a signed letter from President Ronald Reagan.

>More locally, Gentile is the brother of Rita Dutton of Dutton Cattle Company, who, coincidentally, is set to host notorious con man Vivek Ramaswamy on Saturday, June 27.