Findlay Mayor Issues Statement on 'Wexner' New Albany Group?
BY CAREY MORGAN
FINDLAY - Findlay Mayor Christina Muryn abruptly canceled a scheduled briefing between City Council members and planners from New Albany, Ohio, following mounting public blowback over government transparency.
The meeting was intended to address Data Center Development and zoning strategies as northwest Ohio towns look to restrict tech campus expansions. However, the choice of consulting partners sparked immediate concern among residents. New Albany’s highly controlled economic development model was built entirely by billionaire Leslie Wexner—a figure permanently tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as well as unregulated data center expansion in the state, seeking to create a 'silicon heartland'.
The virtual session, originally planned to guide Findlay leaders through the "lessons learned" of managing large industrial tech campuses, drew swift pushback from local watchdogs demanding open public access.
In an official media release issued by the City of Findlay, Mayor Muryn defended the legality of the private briefing under the Ohio Revised Code, comparing it to an informational seminar. She maintained that no specific voting or formal deliberations regarding Findlay’s zoning laws would take place.
The cancellation comes amid an active 12-month moratorium on data center construction passed by the Findlay City Council. Local grassroots organizations continue to voice worries over immense utility burdens, depleting water aquifers, and corporate overreach in rural municipalities.
The deepest layer of public anxiety regarding the New Albany establishment may stem from Wexner’s decades-long financial and personal alliance with Jeffrey Epstein.
For more than twenty years, Epstein served as Wexner’s personal money manager. He held sweeping power of attorney over Wexner’s multi-billion-dollar fortune, private trusts, and real estate assets. Investigative reports have thoroughly documented that Epstein used this extraordinary access to embed himself deeply into Ohio's business and political elite.
Nowhere was this dark relationship more physically evident than in New Albany. Epstein maintained a permanent presence in the community, regularly staying at Wexner’s sprawling 300-acre residential compound. Local property records and police logs from the 1990s and 2000s confirm that Epstein frequently utilized Wexner’s private jets, local guest properties, and corporate facilities to move his operations and associates directly through central Ohio.
Wexner has repeatedly asserted that he cut ties with Epstein in 2007 prior to Epstein's initial criminal conviction in Florida. He claimed to be completely unaware of Epstein’s extensive sex-trafficking network. Subsequent document releases have shown that to be counterfactual.
As the City of Findlay attempts to draft new zoning codes to manage the modern artificial intelligence infrastructure push from globalist entities, residents remain hyper-vigilant about the entities guiding their elected officials.
For many community members, the New Albany economic template represents a dangerous mix of private corporate empires, closed-door agreements, and historical ties to corrupt power structures. By forcing the cancellation of the briefing, Findlay residents made it clear that any future expansion plans must occur in plain sight, entirely free from the corporate shadows of Ohio's past.
