Tsagaris reports to prison

YOUNGSTOWN — James Tsagaris reported to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road here on Friday to begin serving his nine-month prison term for violating the terms of his probation on two counts of honest-services mail fraud.

Tsagaris, 75, of Howland, a former Trumbull County commissioner, began serving his term one week before Christmas, as Judge Sara Lioi had suggested in Akron Federal Court Dec. 10.

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