Krinos settles suit brought by caterer

Staff report

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Campbell’s ex-Mayor George Krinos has settled a lawsuit filed by his wedding caterer.

AngeNetta’s, a restaurant and caterer in Canfield, filed the suit a little more than a year ago after Krinos stopped payment on a $10,000 check he’d sent. He said he stopped payment because several guests got sick at his August 2009 wedding reception and some went to hospitals.

After the suit was filed, the Mahoning County Board of Health told The Vindicator it had no reports of illnesses either from wedding guests or from hospitals. Hospitals are required by law to report cases of food poisoning to health boards.

The board of health said it would be difficult after nearly six months had passed to prove that any guests who got sick at the reception were sickened by food there and not by a virus they’d picked up days before.

AngeNetta’s was not the only establishment to provide food for the reception, which featured a cookie table, a cheese table provided by a different caterer and grape leaves provided by yet another. Ice in drinks could have even been a culprit, the board of health said.

The lawsuit was filed in Mahoning County Area Court in Canfield but moved to the common-pleas court.

Phyllis Olin, who co-owns AngeNetta’s with her husband, Tony, said Friday the suit was settled in November, but she signed papers formalizing the settlement Thursday.

Magistrate Dennis Sarisky ordered Krinos and his wife, Stephanie Valentino-Krinos, to jointly pay $10,000 and interest at a rate of 10 percent per year and court costs.

The judgment was entered Friday. Olin said Krinos is to pay AngeNetta’s over a 21/2-year period.