Guilty plea likely for Mahoning County's former treasurer

YOUNGSTOWN — All indications point to a guilty plea by Lisa A. Antonini, who abruptly resigned as Mahoning County treasurer within hours of being charged with a single felony count of honest-services mail fraud in a bill of information.

“My experience with bills of information is that there has already been an agreement worked out between the defendant and the U.S. Attorney,” said Paul J. Gains, Mahoning County prosecutor since 1997.

“The bill of information is where the defendant waives presentment to a grand jury and agrees to plead guilty to the charge,” he added.

The waiver of a grand jury indictment, which Antonini signed on April 13, is in her case file at the U.S. District Court, but no written plea agreement is shown in the file and no hearing has yet been set.

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