Ex-judge Cronin reports to prison camp in Illinois

GREENVILLE, Ill. — Maureen A. Cronin, a former Mahoning County Common Pleas judge, has self-reported to a minimum-security prison camp here to begin serving the 27-month prison sentence a federal judge imposed on her.

Cronin arrived and was booked into the prison at 9 a.m., Central Time, today, the day she was required to report to the prison.

U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi imposed the prison time and a $4,000 fine on Cronin on Feb. 23, after she pleaded guilty to two felony counts of honest services mail fraud.

Cronin, 56, of Canfield Road, Youngstown, pleaded guilty to accepting and failing to report an $18,000, no-interest cash loan from Flora Cafaro, part owner of the Cafaro Co., which had numerous civil lawsuits before her while she was a judge.