Vienna’s former fiscal officer had her appeal heard before the Ohio 11th District Court of Appeals — months after it was filed on her behalf by her attorney.

Linda McCullough, who served as Vienna’s fiscal officer from 2019 to early 2024, is serving eight years in prison at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville following Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Cynthia Westcott Rice’s verdict on convictions of seven counts of tampering with records and two counts theft in office.

She was also expected to pay court costs and make restitution to both the township at $120,371 and the state auditor’s office, to which she owes $11,746.

In the appeal argued by Corey Grimm of Ingram, Grimm and Yacovone, she cited one assignment of error — that the trial court failed to make findings for imposing consecutive sentences under state law.

Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Charles Morrow argued for the state, saying the court made the necessary findings.

Morrow quoted an earlier Supreme Court decision that an appellate court must have a firm belief of conviction to support the findings before disturbing consecutive sentences.

“Does the record clearly fail to support the trial court’s findings?” said Morrow before Judges Scott Lynch, Matt Lynch and Eugene A. Lucci. “Given what happened here — 127 fraudulent transactions, more than $120,000 stolen, abuse of public office, a township in fiscal emergency, and complete lack of remorse (by defendant) — the answer is plainly no.”

The judges took the case under advisement, saying that a decision was pending.