Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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Tom Mahoney
WARREN — Trumbull County officials are refusing to say what prompted Monday’s sudden firing of Tom Mahoney, director of Trumbull County Department of Job and Family Services.
Detectives with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department are investigating Mahoney, however, said Don Guarino, chief of operations for Sheriff Thomas Altiere.
“We’ve got to see what shakes out,” Guarino said Tuesday.
Guarino would not say how long the investigation had been going on, though he said it is near the end.
Neither he, Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins nor Commissioner Frank Fuda would discuss the nature of the accusations against Mahoney, who worked in government in Trumbull County for 26 years.
Mahoney’s personnel file contained no reprimands covering the eight years he was director of JFS, and Fuda said he was not aware of any reprimands.
Mahoney, who has been director of the agency, formerly known as the Department of Human Services, or welfare department, since March 1, 2000, received word Monday afternoon from deputy sheriffs that commissioners had fired him, Fuda said.
The deputies helped him remove his personal effects from his offices on North Park Avenue and escorted him from the building, Fuda said.
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