Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Ironwood Township chairman responds to plea deal statements

By RALPH ANSAMI

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IRONWOOD — Ironwood Township Chairman Steve Boyd responded Wednesday to some statements that were made at a court plea hearing for former township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso.

She entered guilty or no contest pleas in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday to 10 charges regarding the embezzlement and forgery of township funds.

Boyd said while it was originally alleged Olson-DeRosso took $196,862 from two township funds over a five-year period, as indicated in a Tuesday Daily Globe story, subsequent investigations on the township’s behalf have tu...