Men involved in YSU payroll scandal have court appearance

YOUNGSTOWN — Two defendants in a Youngstown State University payroll department scandal have pleaded innocent in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Ivan Maldonado, former president of the Association of Classified Employees at YSU and fired university payroll assistant, waived his appearance at his arraignment and entered his innocent plea in writing through his lawyer, J. Gerald Ingram.

Maldonado, 42, of Euclid Boulevard, remains free on $2,500 bond on 10 counts of theft, two counts each of falsification and theft in office and one count each of tampering with records and grand theft.

Appearing today before Magistrate Eugene Fehr and pleading innocent to tampering with records, falsification, theft and theft in office was Ron Granger, 45, of Shannon Road, Girard. Appearing with Granger was his lawyer, Neal Atway.

Granger, an administrative assistant in the university payroll department and former university payroll manager, was arrested Friday at YSU, jailed, and released later that day on $1,000 bond.

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