UPDATE | Mahoning County deputy auditor fired for failing full disclosure of raises

YOUNGSTOWN — On his second day in office, Mahoning County Auditor Ralph T. Meacham fired his chief deputy auditor for failing to fully disclose to him compensation increases.

Those pay raises and bonuses were selectively bestowed on certain employees in the auditor’s office by now-suspended Auditor Michael V. Sciortino.

Meacham said he fired Carol McFall this afternoon for failing to disclose $28,110 in Sciortino-approved bonuses paid to 14 employees of his office.

That amount was in addition to $21,703 in raises Sciortino approved in his final days in office for an overlapping group of 13 employees.

The combined total of the raises and bonuses was $49,813.

Some of the raises were to take effect Feb. 23, the day Sciortino was suspended by a panel of three retired judges because of allegations against Sciortino in the Oakhill Renaissance Place criminal conspiracy case.

The county commissioners appointed Meacham as acting auditor until the beginning of his four-year term as auditor Monday. Meacham unseated Sciortino in the November election.

“She didn’t meet my standards of disclosure and transparency,” Meacham said of McFall. “She was my key deputy here. ... She didn’t meet my expectations.”

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