Ex-Trumbull Commissioner Tsagaris sentenced to house arrest

AKRON — Former Trumbull County Commissioner James Tsagaris today was sentenced in U.S. District Court to one year of house arrest and three years’ probation for failing to report a $36,000 loan he received from an area businessman.

Justin J. Roberts, a U.S. attorney, refused to discuss the case after court — or say who the businessman was.

Tsagaris of Howland Township, 75, a Democrat, was a county commissioner from 1999 to 2007.

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