Trial date set in Ironwood township embezzlement case

By RICHARD JENKINS

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BESSEMER — While a plea agreement may still be reached, a trial date has been set in the case against former Ironwood Township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso.

Unless a deal happens; jury selection is scheduled to take place April 30, with the trial beginning May 1.

Olson-DeRosso is facing ten felonies — five counts of forgery, one count of embezzlement by a public official, refusing to turn over records to a successor, removal and destruction of public records, using public money for her own use and diversion of taxes or public money by a publ...