COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Ted Strickland's interim development
director has stepped down suddenly after public revelations that he
owed tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
Mark Barbash has been on the job about three months. He issued a
statement on his resignation Friday after Columbus Business First
cited public records showing Barbash owes $146,313 in back taxes,
penalties and fees to the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS filed tax liens against Barbash in mid-April, the
newspaper reports.
Barbash is the second agency director to resign in six months.
Strickland's human services director, Helen Jones-Kelley, resigned
in December.
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