Ohio Guardian and Ex-Probate Judge Admits to Stealing from Wards

The Youngstown Vindicator, in reporting upon an on-going investigation into county corruption, discovered that  ex-county Probate Court Judge Mark Belinky, convicted last year of tampering with government records, admitted to "stealing money from people that he was a guardian over."   He also admitted to altering probate court documents to further such theft, by, for example, using a Mahoning County probate computer to create false probate court records. The admissions were gleaned from previously sealed affidavits in an ongoing case investigating political corruption. The now unsealed affidavits recount the financial fraud visited upon Mahoning County wards at the hands of the person appointed by the court to protect their interests.  

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