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Ex-YSU union chief, 2 others indicted
TweetBy PETER H. MILLIKEN
milliken@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
Ivan Maldonado
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A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Ivan Maldonado, former president of the Association of Classified Employees and fired payroll assistant at Youngstown State University, on 10 counts of theft.
The indictment also charges him with two counts each of falsification and theft in office, and one count each of tampering with records and grand theft.
Two others also were indicted : Maldonado’s nephew, Anthony J. Maldonado, 25, of Bev Road, Boardman, and Ron Granger, 45, of Shannon Road, Girard. Both were charged in the same indictment, Anthony Maldonado with two counts of falsification and one count each of grand theft and tampering with records, and Granger with tampering with records, falsification, theft and theft in office.
Ivan Maldonado, 42, of Euclid Boulevard, Boardman, is to turn himself in for arraignment Monday morning before Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Judge Evans unsealed the secret indictment Friday and set Maldonado’s bond at $2,500. His lawyer is J. Gerald Ingram.
“There was a systematic submission of false documents to the university, which caused the university to send checks to the retirement board on behalf of employees who had worked there in a part-time capacity, basically buying their time back, which allowed an increase, ultimately in their pensions upon their retirement,” Robert E. Bush, chief of the criminal division of the county prosecutor’s office, said.
The indictment alleges Ivan Maldonado, who had been a 20-year YSU employee, falsified information to allow his nephew to attend YSU and receive more than $30,000 worth of tuition remission he wasn’t entitled to between 2003 and 2009.
Anthony J. Maldonado, who has no prior criminal record, turned himself in and pleaded innocent at his arraignment Friday and is free on $1,000 bond. His trial is tentatively set for May 10. His lawyer, Lou DeFabio, declined to comment.
The 2008 YSU directory listed Granger as university payroll manager. He was Ivan Maldonado’s immediate supervisor, and a certified public accountant, Bush said. Granger has been demoted, Bush added.
Granger’s current position is administrative assistant in the payroll department, and he has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of these charges, said Ron Cole, director of university communications.
Granger was arrested Friday at YSU and jailed before Judge Evans allowed him to be freed on $1,000 bond. His lawyer is Neal Atway.
Bush alleged Ivan Maldonado and Granger manipulated figures in the payroll office to reduce the amount of a garnishment against Granger from Girard Municipal Court from $500 to $121 per pay period.
The case was investigated for 51‚Ñ2 months by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and Youngstown State University Police. Bush said he would seek restitution from the defendants.
Ivan Maldonado apparently did not profit financially from the scheme, but his motive apparently was to provide benefits to his nephew, his co-worker and his friends, Bush said. “It seems like Ivan took care of folks that were close to him or had some association with him,” Bush said.
Ivan Maldonado awaits a bench trial April 12 and 13 before Judge Robert A. Douglas of Youngstown Municipal Court on an unrelated misdemeanor menacing charge, in which he is accused of making a threatening telephone call to another YSU employee in March 2009.
Comments
And Obama wants more government. Just another example of government fraud and waste.
Don't you think that's a stretch, Sara?
His own union voted him out of office. The University has fired him for reasons they deem appropriate. His/Their actions are representative of the rotten apple in an institution of decent, hard-working people.
Government employees/retirees will enjoy taxpayer supported health care insurance ... Medicaid.
@georgejeanie
You're disgraceful
Get it straight YSU has absolutely nothing to do with the president of the United States nor government.
Your angle is as off the mark as you are off the wall trying to infuse the two that's so unquestionably worlds apart.
See any and everybody with some sense knows full well. That YSU is and has historically been it's own crutch for criminally affiliated enterprise and they're doing it under the guise of allegedly posturing as some education outlet,.. WHAT-A-JOKE.
As I recall the alleged kingpin behind this rendition of a shell game has perched there for 20 years,.. corruption has to run deep and durable for that to happen.
However, he's the very individual that was charged with harassment, intimidation and of an employee just last year.
Mind you the infringed upon employees complaint bears credence as to how much access, power, control and authority the accused has.
Which isn't mere irony that it's the same individual that's been vehemently defended by YSU as a stand up guy by YSU standards.
See the travesty about this is this appalling ordeal that was somehow " missed ". By everything from the bursars office, student admissions, finance, the board of trustees and even labor relations,.. for not months but YEARS !!!
If YSU were an operation that would be gross incompetence. However for YSU it's standard operating procedure.
Where by the duration and scope of what was / is so criminally being done with money, admissions, work environment and illegally manipulating retirement pay. That even stonewalled a payment of debt order served upon them that had to been the result of a finalized judgment.
The supervisor and benefactor was only demoted and now on leave,.. leave?,.. with pay?
No see I know admin and the various channels of review and this isn't an infraction that neither one, two nor three individuals can pull off by themselves.
Thus it irrefutably shows YSU plays by their own revisionist rules and proves neither legal, honorable nor forthright isn't anywhere in their protocol.
Which in and of itself concludes that this isn't even a blip on the impropriety map for what you'd find if there was a sweep to go through that jip joint's books and practices.
The pay to play road map at YSU is if you're not criminally connected you're mere profit target prey down there.
See in fitting effigy just like that one sided pit is no stadium, their one way streets are no thoroughfare's and the single minded agenda they're steeped in.
Makes them the largest grant guzzling, loan fleecing, abatement abyss and entitlement eating operation that's ever descended upon the area,.. bar none.
Now if you'd like to try to link the president of the United States and or even U.S. government to who and how an outfit like YSU operates.
Then by all means have your dysfunctional self a delusional teabaggers ball there you infuse fiction and bar all facts buffoon.
After all the craziness I have seen as comments on this story, just let me say...
Please remember that all three of these people are innocent until proven guilty.
Knowing only one of these people, my personal belief is that there is one guilty party here. I truly believe that the one person, whom I know very well, would not jeopardize his job, license or family over a credit card. This charge does not even make logical sense!
Oh, by the way, I would also like to say that YSU paychecks seem to have gotten to the employees on time in spite of the skeleton crew that has been responsible for the task. The employees should be grateful for the dilligence of that employee (whom I know).
It will be interesting to see if YSU paychecks are on time this month with a primary payroll official on paid administrative leave.
If not, even he may have a grievence to be filed!