Shenango to get $400,000 from bonding company

Nov. 17--Shenango Township will get $400,000 from a bonding company for alleged missing funds in an ongoing criminal investigation.

Township solicitor Lou Perrotta announced at the supervisors' meeting Nov. 12 that after months of negotiating, Selective Insurance Company, which held the fidelity bond for former township secretary-treasurer Brian Tanner, had settled on that amount with the township.

The settlement falls $252,000 short of the amount allegedly missing from the township funds in an ongoing case against Tanner.

Tanner, 50, is under indictment for more than 500 counts of forgery and theft and other offenses following an investigation into township funds that allegedly disappeared during his tenure. Although questionable expenditures initially were set at more than $1 million, the unauthorized expenditures Tanner is alleged to have made were estimated at $652,000 by District Attorney Joshua Lamancusa. An investigation into bank and credit card records dating back several years continues as officials try to determine the actual amount they say is missing.

Perrotta said the township could seek additional money if anyone else is charged in the case and it could also seek to seize Tanner's assets if he is convicted.

Tanner's personal assets were ordered frozen after a court hearing in October.

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