Jack Cohen is the head of the Butler County, Pennsylvania Tourism and Convention Bureau.

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The homepage of the Butler County, Ohio, prosecutor's office, which Gmoser heads, prominently features alerts against scammers.

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But tongue-in-cheek prosecutors in Ohio's Butler County accuse the rodent of deliberately misleading the public.

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"Truly, I have really serious work to do in Butler County, " he said from his office in Hamilton, some 25 miles north of Cincinnati, even as snowflakes dropped from the skies.

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