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  Federal, State Officials Search Judge’s Office  
  Evidence Sought In Criminal Offenses:   February 13, 2014 Edition  
     According to logs at the Boardman Police Department, agents of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the FBI were at the home of Mahoning County Probate Judge, Mark Belinky, 61, at 4032 Windsor Rd. last Friday, Feb. 7.
      A search warrant approved by Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Kolby indicates Judge Belinky’s offices at the Mahoning County Court House were searched.
      According to the search warrant, law enforcement officials were seeking items as evidence in criminal offenses, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, tampering with records, money laundering, theft and theft in office.
      In signing the search warrant, Judge Kolby said affidavits submitted by BCI Supervisor James Ciotti established “there is sufficient reason to believe evidence of criminal activity” was located at the Probate Court.
      According to a log of the search warrant, some 23 items were seized in the search of the Probate Court.
      Agent Ciotti said those items included:
      •A folder containing campaign records.
      •A Dell desktop computer.
      •A paper that contained user names and passwords.
      •A promissory note with wages and garnishment.
      •Photo-copied campaign checks from 2004.
      •An Ohio campaign finance report “Committee for Our Future.”
      •Bank statements, miscellaneous financial records.
      •Information on campaign signs.
      •2008 general election campaign reports.
      •Miscellaneous campaign documents.
      •Venerose property information/IRS tax information.
      •2014 campaign petitions and filing documents.
      •Oak Hill notes, list of employees, miscellaneous notes.
      •File folder containing campaign events and sign information.
      •2007 amended W-4, Huntington bank information, 2007 financial disclosure, 2008 financial disclosure.
      •Folder containing names, addresses, phone numbers for sign locations.
      •Personal financial statements.
      •Cortland Bank book, finance reports.
      •Handwritten financial notes.
      •Campaign cards.
      •Returned campaign post cards, 2008 date book.
      •2008 campaign election events.
      Judge Belinky first took office in Nov. 2007, by appointment of then Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.
      He had filed petitions for re-election with the Mahoning County Board of Elections. Also filing in the Democrat Party camp are Susan Maruca and Charles Sammarone.
      Last fall, Maruca took issue with Belinky, citing unpaid taxes, a $20,000 loan and some 205 parking tickets issued to Belinky in the city of Youngstown.
      Last October, Belinky had his wages garnished to pay a $20,000 loan he obtained in Oct., 2008, from a Naples, Fla. man.
      Judge Belinky easily won the 2008 Democratic primary over Judge James Lanzo of Struthers Municipal Court and defeated Judge Scott Hunter of Mahoning County Area Court in the 2008 general election for a six-year term.
      Judge Belinky has retained Atty. J. Gerald Ingram.
 
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