DRAFT/ VENEROSE CHRONOLOGY

Graduates from Struthers High School, 1988.

Put on two years’ probation in October 1992 after pleading guilty to illegal voting in the previous year.

Graduates from Youngstown State University in June 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications.

He and a Youngstown priest have a Dec. 31, 1999, audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

Files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in June 2001 while living in a Lowellville apartment and listing his occupation as a customer-service representative with Boardman Medical Supply. Liabilities: $171,106. Assets: $3,054.

As the Republican candidate for Youngstown 7th Ward city councilman, he loses to Democrat Mark S. Memmer by a 2-1 margin in November 2003.

Fined $50 and given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and put on a year’s probation on Dec. 31, 2003, after pleading no contest to criminal trespass and resisting arrest in June 2003 in Warren.

Is named along with his mother, Edith Venerose, in documents signed by Geraldine Burke, 88, of Boardman on Oct. 23, 2008, that give the Veneroses authority to handle Burke’s finances and health-care decisions if Burke becomes unable to do so.

Probate Judge Mark A. Belinky voids the above documents Feb. 10, 2009, freezes Burke’s bank accounts and orders Burke’s bank records since Jan. 1, 2008, delivered to the court for review.

Burke’s court-appointed emergency guardian, Children and Family Services Inc., files a concealment of assets complaint Feb. 19, 2010, against the Veneroses demanding at least $50,000 in restitution to the Burke estate.

Venerose is hired June 28, 2010, as a corrections officer at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center and fired Nov. 1, 2010, after Judge Theresa Dellick learns details of the probate- court concealment complaint.

Visiting Probate Judge Denny Clunk orders David Venerose to pay $67,560 in legal fees and restitution to the Burke estate in installments over 16 years and dismisses Edith Venerose from the complaint.

Source: Vindicator files and court records