Oakhill defendant demands identity of informant

CLEVELAND — The attorney for Martin Yavorcik, one of the defendants in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal-corruption case, cast some doubt that a confidential informant was threatened and wants prosecutors to reveal the person’s identity.

The four-page legal brief from Mark Lavelle, Yavorcik’s attorney, is the latest court filing between this case’s defendants and prosecutors over who can see the evidence.

Prosecutors say a confidential witness was threatened May 7, 2014, seven days before Yavorcik and his two co-defendants — Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally and Mahoning County Auditor Michael V. Sciortino — were indicted on 83 criminal counts.

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