BAZETTA TWP., Ohio - The Trumbull County Auditor's Office has been ordered to pay Bazetta Township more than $80,000 in tax receipts.

A ruling from Ohio's 11th District Court of Appeals states that the Auditor's Office must pay the township $80,857.18 plus interest in connection with taxpayer funds lost due to a cyber scam.

The scam happened after the Bazetta Township fiscal officer's email was compromised and a scammer sent an email to the Auditor's Office requesting more than $160,000 in taxpayer funds be transferred to a Green Dot Bank account.

Since then, about half of those funds were recovered, but the other half was still missing, prompting township trustees to demand the Auditor's Office pay that money back to them.

A court ruled in favor of the trustees, but Auditor Martha Yo

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