In the year David DeVillers has spent on the job as the region's top federal attorney, the Ohio Speaker of the House and two Cincinnati City Councilmembers have been arrested in pay-to-play schemes.

And he didn't shut the door on the possibility there could be more corruption-related arrests coming at City Hall.

The rash of arrests are a reflection of DeVillers making it a top priority to crack down on public corruption immediately after the Trump appointee took over as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio in November 2019.

"I really think we did a disservice by not being aggressive," DeVillers told The Enquirer's That's So Cincinnati podcast. "The idea of taking shots is what we need to do in cases like that. We do it in murder cases. We do it in drug cases. We should do it in public corruption cases."