A former Ashtabula city councilman has been indicted on a felony charge of false voter registration.
Reginald Holman is charged with providing a false address to the Ashtabula County Board of Elections when he ran for council in 2017.
During a hearing in March, Holman testified that he had been residing at 1123 West 43rd Street for the past three years. However, records maintained by the Board of Elections indicates that Mr. Holman has been registered to vote at that address since September 2008, more than six years prior the time period that Mr. Holman testified under oath that he had been residing there.
The indictment alleges that Holman knowingly registered or made application to register in a precinct in which he is not a qualified voter. Holman vacated his council seat last month.
In January, Holman was at the center of a controversy in Ashtabula after $260,000 was found stashed in an abandoned building across the street from his family's hair salon. Holman told WKYC's Andrew Horansky that his intention was to recover whatever might be salvageable inside the building and sell it for charity.
With permission from Ashtabula's housing inspector, Holman sent a high school friend named Harrison Brown inside the building, where he allegedly found the cash behind a refrigerator. According to an affidavit, Brown kept some of the money and shared some of it with a friend named Jashon Hunt.
Hunt allegedly claimed he later witnessed Holman and the housing inspector, John Artuso, also sharing the cash.