HIGHLIGHTS Vitullo-Saadey trial

From Martin DePerro, now of Hudson, owner of Youngstown Bridge & amp; Iron, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy:
In late 1995, he took $10,000 from Randall I. Bailey of Youngstown and placed it under a newspaper on the bar at The Upstairs Lounge in Austintown. The money was to get Bailey's DUI taken care of.
Champ Saadey later gave the money back, saying no one wanted the case, fearing Bailey, who had a drinking problem, would kill someone while driving. Bailey was despondent and asked if more money would help. Champ said $15,000 might do the trick.
Bailey came up with $12,000 and DePerro lent him $3,000. DePerro gave the $15,000 to Champ, who said the case would be taken care of.
James A. Vitullo said to DePerro in passing one day at The Upstairs "You didn't help that guy, did you?" -- meaning Bailey, and DePerro lied and said he hadn't.
In 1996, DePerro collected $6,000 from another friend, Bernard C. Walter Jr. of Boardman, for his DUI and gave it to Champ at The Upstairs.
Champ then asked DePerro to do work at a house at Lake Milton where a pool was going in that needed reinforced concrete. The house belonged to James A. Philomena, Mahoning County prosecutor at the time. Philomena paid for materials only.
From Murray S. West of Youngstown:
In 1996, then-Atty. Jack V. Campbell said it would cost $4,000 for no jail on a DUI and $2,000 for some jail time. West paid $4,000 and never appeared before a judge in Mahoning County Area Court in Austintown.
From Kenneth P. Olsavsky of Canfield:
In 1994, Campbell handled his DUI in Austintown court. A year later, he paid Campbell $3,000. No charge appeared on Olsavsky's record.
In 1996, he had two more DUIs in Austintown and hired Campbell for $4,500. One DUI was dismissed and the other reduced to a lesser offense.
(Maridee L. Costanzo, one of Vitullo's lawyers, demonstrated with court documents that Martin Hume, not Vitullo, was the assistant county prosecutor on those two DUI cases.)
From James R. Wise of Boardman, who was sentenced in September 1999 on a mail fraud conviction and whose law license is suspended:
Admitted he bribed former county Judge Fred H. Bailey.
Represented a client for his office mate, then-Judge Martin W. Emrich, and Emrich assigned Magistrate Dave D'Apolito to preside over the case. Emrich told Wise "Don't worry about it." The defendant was found innocent.
Source: Testimony in James A. Vitullo-Russell J. "Champ" Saadey racketeering trial in U.S. District Court in Cleveland