Conglose: ‘I’ll pay city back if I’m not entitled to education bonuses”

Conglose: ‘I’ll pay city back if I’m not entitled to education bonuses”

YOUNGSTOWN — While Carmen S. Conglose still contends he’s entitled to about $3,000 in city education bonuses, he’ll pay it back in full should an investigation determine he shouldn’t have received the payments.

Conglose turned that amount of money over to one of his attorneys, Matthew Blair of Niles, according to a written statement today by the city’s former deputy director of public works.

Conglose wrote he “would work diligently with the city and the state auditor to determine if I truly qualified for this benefit...If not I will promptly repay the same to the city.”

The investigation could lead to criminal charges, city officials say.

Conglose received about $3,000 total in education bonuses between 1999 and 2007.

Conglose has insisted he has no knowledge of how a fake 1986 bachelor of science in applied science degree from Youngstown State University ended up in one of his city personnel files.

As for a 2003 sworn court deposition in which he testified that he had the degree, Conglose wrote that he’d “need to read what was transcribed and if I ever reviewed my answers at the deposition. I cannot remember.”

Conglose contends that his 1990 surveyor’s license was viewed by the state as equivalent to a four-year college degree; something disputed by the head of the state agency that gives the licenses.

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