The man who wants to be Mahoning County's next engineer has a problem with his taxes.
Patrick Ginnetti won the local party's endorsement for next month's Democratic primary to succeed longtime Engineer Dick Marsico.
But the Mahoning County Recorder's office confirmed Ginnetti owes the Internal Revenue Service nearly $28,000 in back taxes. The lien on his home in Struthers has been in place since 2005.
In January, Marsico announced he would d be retiring at the end of his current term.
Ginnetti said the issue involved what he called a "calculation error" from a previous business and that he is making payments on his lien.
