YSU payroll scandal case remains unresolved

YOUNGSTOWN — The attorney representing the man at the center of a Youngstown State University payroll scandal argues that the statute of limitations has tolled on six of the charges against his client.

Atty. J. Gerald Ingram, who represents Ivan Maldonado, argued today before Visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that the theft-by-deception charges have six-year or two-year statutes of limitations and were filed after those dates and should therefore be dismissed.

Robert E. Bush Jr., who is prosecuting the case for the county prosecutor’s office, countered that the crimes of which Maldonado is accused occurred as a course of conduct. Also, because Maldonado was in a job in which he was in control of documentation submitted to the state, he was the only one who was in a position to know about his activities.

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