Ex-JFS director wants drug conviction expunged

Staff report

WARREN

Tom Mahoney, who was fired from his job as Trumbull County Job and Family Services director in 2009 for buying drugs off of a temporary JFS employee, wants his record expunged.

A hearing on the request is scheduled for Dec. 15 before Judge Ronald Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Mahoney’s attorney, Robert Shaker, filed a request Oct. 28 for his records to be sealed, saying Mahoney is eligible, has no other criminal proceedings pending, “that his rehabilitation has been attained; and that sealing/expunging of the records of the charges and convictions is consistent with the public interest.”

Mahoney, 63, of Bluffton, S.C., earned $107,344 per year and supervised 261 employees before his termination. The agencyserves low-income residents.

Mahoney was convicted of cocaine possession.

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