Youngstown gives $5,000 buyout to ex-cashier convicted of falsification

By David Skolnick | June 12, 2015 at 12:08a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

A city finance-department cashier who pleaded guilty to falsification related to her husband’s involuntary-manslaughter conviction, has accepted a $5,000 buyout to leave her job.

The board of control Thursday approved giving Megan L. Miller, 38, the money in exchange for her resignation, retroactive to Wednesday, and an agreement that she won’t file any grievances or lawsuits against the city. She spent 20 years working for the city.

“She voluntarily resigned her job,” said city Law Director Martin Hume, a board of control member.

Miller, who made about $35,000 a year in her city job, was convicted in April of falsification, a misdemeanor. She received a year of probation, a 180-day suspended Mahoning County jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. Miller originally was charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing justice, both felonies.

Miller’s 39-year-old husband, Randall, pleaded guilty in September 2014 to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter. He originally was charged with murder in the September 2013 shooting death of Frank James Brown on South Truesdale Avenue. He hasn’t been sentenced and is cooperating with investigators against others who may have been involved in the shooting.

Police have said Brown was shot inside a car owned by Megan Miller.

When Brown’s body was found, he was lying amid shards of broken glass in the street.

Megan Miller told police the car had not recently been cleaned, but, when officers served a search warrant at her home, they found a window had been replaced and efforts had been made to clean the car.

Investigators found shattered window glass fragments and blood in the car and on its running board, along with glass fragments on the Millers’ garage floor and in the garage drain, police said.

Miller started working for the city in July 1995, in the park and recreation department. She moved to finance about four years later.

Miller was suspended from her job in October 2013, a month after Brown’s shooting death.