CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is continuing his fight to try and keep Ohio’s Unclaimed Funds from being used on projects like the Browns Brook Park stadium project.

When Ohio’s budget was signed earlier this year, it included a plan to take $1.7 billion in unclaimed funds to be used for a new Ohio Cultural and Sports Facility Performance Grant Fund and Unclaimed Funds.

$600 million of that would go towards the proposed Cleveland Browns project.

Unclaimed funds come from a variety of sources, including dormant bank accounts and unclaimed class action lawsuit payouts.

The state is required to hang on to them until claimed.

At the time the budget was under debate, Republican lawmakers tried to reassure the public that only money that had sat dormant fo

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