Vendor seeks exoneration in Trumbull cleaning-supply case

WARREN — One company that was implicated in the Trumbull County purchasing probe says it deserves to be exonerated of any wrongdoing in the scandal, which resulted in convictions for a number of other cleaning supply vendors.

William A. Barnett, vice president and general counsel for State Industrial Products of Cleveland, a multinational cleaning supplies vendor, said the position the county prosecutor’s office has taken regarding the company is unfair.

Even though State Industrial testified before a grand jury, supplied results of a lie detector test to the prosecutor’s office, and won a civil lawsuit it filed last year against the county, the prosecutor’s office has refused to clear State Industrial’s name, Barnett said.

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