Columbus, Ohio - In a split decision announced Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court has accepted the resignation from the practice of law from Diane Vettori-Caraballo, the ex-Mahoning County judge now serving a 30-month federal prison sentence for stealing nearly $100,000 from the estate of a deceased former client. Vettori-Caraballo, who had been presiding judge in Sebring, pled guilty and was sentenced in 2019 in U.S. District Court in Cleveland.

Today’s court ruling accepting the resignation states “disciplinary action” is pending against the ex-judge, but three of the justices including Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor dissented. The dissents have not yet been published and a media spokesman for the court told 21 News he did not know when they will be available. Court opinions and dissents are public information.

The high court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel also compiled a report prior to the court’s ruling but the report has been ordered sealed. 21 News has left a message requesting further information from Attorney Joseph Caligiuri in Columbus, the state supreme court’s disciplinary counsel.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Vettori-Caraballo is currently under the control of Residential Reentry Management based in Cincinnati, one of the Department of Prisons field offices that manages eventual reentry following release from prison. The former judge had been incarcerated at Alderson Federal Prison in West Virginia since her conviction. It is not known at this time whether she is still there or has been moved with the change in her status. Further information from the department was unavailable.

Vettori-Caraballo was convicted after admitting to several counts including mail fraud and making false statements to law enforcement. Investigators said the ex-judge had “structured deposits of the cash she stole into five different banks within four weeks to avoid regulations that require banks to report cash transactions over $10,000 to the IRS.”  In addition to her prison sentence, she has been ordered to pay $328,000 in restitution.