Phone recordings among items revealed during Oakhill discovery

CLEVELAND — Court documents reveal that almost 600 hours of phone calls, other "sound clips" and pages of documents have been handed over to defendants attorneys during discovery in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal conspiracy case.

The defendants are Mahoning County Auditor Michael V. Sciortino; Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally, who is a lawyer and former county commissioner; and Atty. Martin Yavorcik, an unsuccessful candidate for county prosecutor in 2008.

The indictment against the three men, dismissed in Mahoning County in 2011 and refiled this year in Cleveland, alleges a conspiracy to impede the move of the Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services from then-Cafaro Co.-owned rented quarters at Garland Plaza on Youngstown’s East Side to Oakhill Renissance Place.

Recordings were made from 2005-2010, according to court records. Also submitted as evidence were Yavorcik's campaign records, records from the Ohio Ethics Commission and depositions from the two civil lawsuits involving Oakhill's purchase.