By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN In a counterclaim to stop a foreclosure on its property by MS Consultants Inc., the Chill-Can property owners
David Bozanich, the ex-Youngstown finance director serving a year in prison in a corruption probe, was set to move to a halfway house around March 8 until the judge who sentenced him objected.
Bozanich has been serving his sentence at the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut since Sept. 14, 2020, after 11 days in the Mahoning County jail while waiting to be processed by the state system.
He was approved for transitional control release meaning he’d be placed in a halfway house to start on or after March 8 by the Ohio Department of Rehabilita-tion and Correction, according to JoEllen Smith, its spokeswoman.
YOUNGSTOWN Political corruption in the Mahoning Valley never seems to go away, and this year saw former Youngstown Finance Director David Bozanich, ex-Mayor Charles Sammarone and downtown developer Dominic Marchionda plead guilty to felony charges.
Rather than go to trial on the 101 counts in an Aug. 30, 2018, indictment, the three took deals with Bozanich being the only one sentenced to prison for his crimes.
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Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney sentenced Bozanich Sept. 3 to one year in state prison for four crimes he committed as part of the city government corruption investigation. He also received three years of probation.