Staff, The Vindicator
Mar 3, 2010
John J. Cafaro, the recently retired vice president of the Cafaro Co., will be arraigned here at 10 a.m. March 17 before U.S. District Judge John R. Adams on a charge of falsifying campaign contribution information.
Cafaro’s lawyer, Ralph E. Cascarilla of Cleveland, said Cafaro, 58, of Hubbard, intends to plead guilty to making a materially false statement concerning a contribution to the unsuccessful 2004 congressional campaign of his daughter, Capri Cafaro.
The elder Cafaro caused an official of his daughter’s congressional campaign to falsely report he had given only $2,000 to her campaign, when, in fact, he gave an additional $10,000 in the form of a loan to an unidentified campaign staff member for the campaign’s benefit, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Read full story >