YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- A former judge in Ohio has been charged with two counts of fraud for allegedly getting a sham loan from a business executive with cases before her court.
The charges against former Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Maureen Cronin in Youngstown were announced Thursday by federal prosecutors in Cleveland.
She allegedly got an interest-free, no-payment, no-collateral $18,000 loan from a person with several cases before her court.
Cronin was elected to the bench three times and quit in 2007, two months before her second drunken driving conviction.
Neither Cronin nor her attorney could be reached for comment Friday. Messages were left at a phone listed in her name and at her lawyer's office.
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