CLEVELAND, Ohio - A contentious atmosphere during the Oak Hill trial as defendant Martin Yavorcik cross examines Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains.

Gains took the witness stand facing off against the man he defeated as Mahoning County Prosecutor.

Defendant Yavorcik claims no one bribed him to run against Gains, and he says he would do it again.

"You don't like me very well and I don't like you, fair to say?" Yavorcik asked.

Gains says, "I don't know if you like me or not. But I don't have any feeling either way for you sir."

Yavorcik who is facing 11 criminal charges in the Oak Hill case says he ran for office because Paul Gains wouldn't hire him and he felt he could do a better job.

But Gains says he didn't hire Yavorcik because of how he handled an alleged violation of civil rights.

"Instead of going up the ladder and telling your boss we are not arraigning people properly, you decided to try and profit from it and that in my opinion was unethical and a breach of the trust and faith that the city of Youngstown placed in you when they hired you as an assistant prosecutor. So no sir, I wouldn't hire you, I didn't hire you," Gains said.

Then it was time for Lisa Antonini to take the stand. The former Mahoning County Party Chairwoman and former county treasurer.

Antonini told the jury there was an underlying understanding that if defendant Martin Yavorcik was elected as prosecutor he would stop the criminal investigation into Oak Hill that included Antonini, John McNally, former treasurer John Reardon and former auditor Michael Sciortino.

Antonini will return to the stand on Tuesday for cross examination by the defense.