The attorney prosecuting the corruption case against two local elected officials and a Poland lawyer says the attorneys for the suspects knew the names of two informants as early as last July.

Prosecutor Tim McGinty filed a two page discovery document in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court on Monday, stating that the attorneys representing Mahoning County Auditor Michael Sciortino, Youngstown Mayor John McNally and attorney Martin Yavorcik were told on July 10, 2014 the names of two informants who secretly recorded conversations with Yavorcik and Sciortino for the FBI.

McGinty also says that attorney Mark Lavelle was also given the names of the informants when he became Yavrocik's attorney in October.

The three men are accused of lying about an alleged conspiracy to keep the county from buying the Oakhill Renaissance Center in order to move some offices out of a building being leased from the Cafaro Company.  Yavorcik, Sciortino and McNally were indicted on criminal charges last May.

Defense attorneys have been fighting the prosecution's attempts to keep some evidence from being shared with the public, partly over what prosecutors contend are concerns over the safety of potential witnesses in the case.

Just last week, attorney Lavelle filed a reply to an earlier brief saying that after a ten year investigation, the government “is still trying to hide its evidence,” and that it is unrealistic to expect him to prepare a defense just seven days before the trial.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Janet Burnside ordered that Lavelle's reply be stricken from the record because Lavelle failed to ask the court's permission to file the document.

No trial date has been set. The prosecution has not submitted a list of witnesses.

The next pretrial is scheduled on March 20.

More information on content from those FBI recordings may be found by following this link.