Ohio ? Former Attorney General Marc Dann ran a vulgar and unprofessional office and misused campaign funds to make lavish payments to friends and family, the state’s government watchdog said Monday in releasing the results of a six-month investigation.

Dann, a Democrat elected in 2006 on an anti-corruption platform, resigned in May amid a sexual harassment scandal in his office that included his admission that he had an affair with an employee.

The report by Inspector General Tom Charles said Dann hired a coterie of young women dubbed “the Dannettes” who were so unqualified and unprofessional in their dress and conduct that an office assistant was assigned to conduct etiquette training.

Dann used his position to indulge himself and gave well-paid top jobs to aides whose only qualification was their loyalty and friendship to their boss, the report said.

Charles said he was forwarding the report to Columbus and Franklin County prosecutors, the Internal Revenue Service and the Ohio Department of Taxation, among other entities.

Anthony Gutierrez, an aide at the center of the sexual harassment scandal who was later fired, could face felony ethics charges, Charles said. Dann, who Charles said declined to be interviewed for the investigation, could face sanctions from the Ohio Elections Commission regarding the way he spent campaign funds and public money.

Dann said in a conference call with reporters that Charles’ report was littered with innuendo instead of facts and didn’t document any substantive cases in which he had broken the law.