YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Just after 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, the visiting judge in the Oak Hill Renaissance public corruption case unsealed nearly 200 pages of court documents.

The case records were made public just one day after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of The Vindicator and 21 WFMJ. The news outlets filed a lawsuit last year after Judge William H. Wolff, Jr. ordered some of the documents sealed. Attorneys for the Cafaro's made their case that it could jeopardize their client's rights to a fair trial.

But the Oak Hill public corruption case never made it to trial. Special prosecutors on the case asked that the 73-count indictment against all seven people be dismissed, and the Judge granted the dismissal of the charges more than a year ago, on July 11th of 2011.

The original indictment, dating back to July 29th of 2010, included charges against Anthony Cafaro, Sr., his sister Flora Cafaro, Mahoning County Commissioner John McNally, County Auditor Michael Sciortino and former County Treasurer John Reardon, the former Director of Mahoning County Job & Family Services John Zachariah, as well as Attorney Martin Yavorcik.

The unsealed records allege that retired mall-developer Anthony Cafaro, Sr. wasn't shy about using his influence or his checkbook in an attempt to get what he wanted.

The documents lay out allegations of conspiracy involving public office holders, perjury, bribery, clandestine meetings and free legal services.

Prosecutors say the alleged conspiracy involved Cafaro engineering a plot to block the relocation of Mahoning County's Job and Family Services offices from the Cafaro-owned McGuffy Plaza, to the Oak Hill Renaissance Building that was eventually purchased by Mahoning County.

Cafaro is accused of providing $100,000 dollars through a bank to the bankruptcy trustee to guarantee a line of credit to the Oak Hill property. Allegedly making it appear that he was interested in buying the Oak Hill property, but the effort was actually meant to delay the sale of the building according to prosecutors.

The retired mall developer is also accused of seeking to have third parties intervene and file lawsuits in another alleged attempt to prevent the move of JFS from the Cafaro-owned property on Garland Avenue. Prosecutors say Cafaro had hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in rent to lose if the agency relocated.

Mahoning County Commissioner John McNally was accused of meeting with law firms hired by Cafaro, according to the court documents. Prosecutors claim he would meet with Cafaro lawyers to review drafts of the taxpayer lawsuit filed against Mahoning County Commissioners, including himself, in 2006, prior to the lawsuit actually being filed. The state says they have proof in several emails.

Commissioner McNally said he wasn't interested in answering any questions about a case that has been dismissed, but he did have this to say, "I appreciate the Supreme Court's decision myself, and a couple of other folks involved in that lawsuit never really opposed the release of this information. It is what it is. I'm happy the case was dismissed 54 weeks ago." McNally goes on to say that there's always a chance that the case can be refiled at some point, so he's not going to comment any further.

Attorneys Martin G. Weinberg and George Stamboulidis, both representing Mr. Cafaro, issued a statement to news reporters saying, "All charges against Anthony M. Cafaro, Sr., and the other defendants were dismissed over one year ago. These allegations were never contested in court because the prosecution elected to dismiss the entire case. The dismissal of the case was evidence that Mr. Cafaro and the other defendants not only are presumed innocent, but are in fact innocent of these politically motivated allegations."