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Bush garnishment case settled

Friday, May 30, 2014

YOUNGSTOWN — The Cafaro Co’s garnishment action against Robert E. Bush Jr., Mahoning County Job and Family Services director, to collect an old McGuffey Mall commercial rent debt has been settled, dismissed and can’t be re-filed.

Visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court this week signed the dismissal entry, which doesn’t provide any further explanation.

Joe Bell, the Cafaro Co.’s director of corporate communications, said a confidentiality clause accompanies the settlement.

He said, however, his understanding is that Bush will forgo the $7,411 deducted from his county paycheck between May 31 and Oct. 4, 2013, and pay the Cafaro Co. an additional undisclosed sum.

Bush deferred comment to his lawyer, Ron Yarwood, who declined comment.

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