Election petition case

WARREN

Longtime Hubbard Councilwoman Lisha Pompili-Baumiller was sentenced to a suspended 90-day jail sentence, two years’ probation and a $1,000 fine Tuesday after pleading guilty earlier to making a false statement relating to an election petition she filed for re-election to Hubbard City Council.

Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court said: “To mess this up is something that shouldn’t be done. You are paying the price for it right now.”

Pompili-Baumiller said she takes responsibility for what she did. Her attorney, Devin Stanley, noted she has an otherwise “unblemished record.”

Documents in the case say she filed a declaration of candidacy petition Jan. 9 on which she certified she had witnessed the writing of every signature on the petition.

But two men whose signatures were on her petition said they neither saw nor spoke to Pompili-Baumiller, elections officials said. Officials determined the men’s wives had signed for them.