WILLIAMS v. SCHNEIDER

Nos. 104201, 104206, and 104232.

107 N.E.3d 581 (2017)

2017-Ohio-9152

Jacqueline T. WILLIAMS, Director, Ohio Department of Commerce, Plaintiff v. Joanne C. SCHNEIDER, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

RELEASED AND JOURNALIZED: December 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Small , James L. Ferro , Cleveland Construction, Inc., 8620 Tyler Boulevard, Mentor, Ohio 44060, For Cleveland Construction, Inc.

Richard J. Thomas , Jerry R. Krzys , Henderson Covington Messenger, Newman & Thomas Co., L.P.A., 6 Federal Plaza Central, Suite 1300, Youngstown, Ohio 44503, Charles Richley Raley Jr. , Michael J. Sikora , Sikora Law L.L.C., 737 Bolivar Road, Suite 270, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, For Home Savings and Loan Company of Youngstown.

Darrel A. Clay , Robert T. Hunt , Charles T. Riehl , Walter & Haverfield, L.L.P., 1301 East 9th Street, Suite 3500, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, For City of Parma Heights.

M. Colette M. Gibbons , Robert M. Stefancin , Ice Miller, L.L.P., 600 Superior Avenue, East, Suite 1701, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, For Matthew L. Fornshell.

Joseph H. Gutkoski , Harvey Labovitz , Tim L. Collins , Collins & Scanlon L.L.P., 3300 Terminal Tower, 50 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, For Parma Heights Land Development, L.L.C.

Michael C. O'Malley , Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, BY: Colleen Majeski , Assistant County Prosecutor, 1200 Ontario Street, 8th Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, For Cuyahoga County Treasurer, W. Christopher Murray, II.

BEFORE: Jones, J., Kilbane, P.J., and E.T. Gallagher, J.


JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

{¶ 1} In the early 2000s, Joanne and Alan Schneider were involved in a Ponzi scheme that cost innocent investors millions of dollars.2 Individual investors were not the only ones affected by the couple's fraud, and litigation resulting from the Schneiders' investment...

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