VIENNA — The township’s former fiscal officer can continue to count off the days until her prison stay concludes.

That’s because Linda McCullough, who served as the township’s fiscal officer from 2019 to early 2024, has exhausted all of her appeals after the Ohio Supreme Court denied jurisdiction of her case Tuesday, according to a news release from the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office.

McCullough is serving eight years in prison at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville following Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Cynthia Westcott’s verdict on convictions of seven counts of tampering with records and two counts of 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.

The charges stemmed from indictments in October 2024 and February 2025, which accused McCullough of using her elected position to pay personal credit card bills, as well as personal and private business expenses at several stores.

The value of the property or service stolen was $116,370, according to the February indictment.

The state’s 11th District Court of Appeals heard her initial appeal earlier this year where she cited one assignment of error — that the trial court failed to make findings for imposing consecutive sentences under state law, argued by Corey Grimm of Ingram, Grimm and Yacovone.

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.

McCullough lost her appeal on March 23.