Oakhill defendants submit extensive potential witness lists of officials, media

CLEVELAND

Current and former Mahoning County public officials, Vindicator reporters and editors, and a number of people on the prosecutor’s list are among those named as potential witnesses by the three defendants in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal-corruption case.

The 68 names on the potential witness lists submitted by Lynn Maro and John B. Juhasz, the attorneys for Oakhill defendants Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally and ex-Mahoning County Auditor Michael V. Sciortino, respectively, are identical.

The list from Mark Lavelle, attorney for Martin Yavorcik, the other defendant, had 31 names, including some named by McNally and Sciortino.

The prosecutor’s list of potential witnesses, filed with the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts in late October, has 86 names, five keepers of records at banks and the keeper of records at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Meanwhile, the judge in Sciortino’s Mahoning County case granted a request from Juhasz to postpone a separate criminal case against his client until April 25. It was supposed to start Jan. 11. The Oakhill case in Cuyahoga County is scheduled to begin March Of the three defendants, McNally, a former Mahoning County commissioner, is on all three potential witness lists. Sciortino is on Yavorcik’s potential witness list.

Read more about the lists in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.