Former Fort Wayne mayoral and U.S. congressional candidate Tim Smith filed a complaint in Allen Circuit Court this year claiming a Warsaw-based attorney breached confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in a child sex abuse settlement and caused Smith reputational harm.

Wednesday morning, Jake Venderley of Hunt Suedhoff Kearney, appeared in Judge Andrew Williams courtroom on behalf of his client, Mark Nei, former Redwood Inn owner, in a matter of a promissory note between Nei and the owners of Clean Cut Kid, current owners of the beloved restaurant. John Thomas Roseberry, Fort Wayne resident, and Aaron McCormick of Bluffton, partners in Clean Cut Kid, secured a loan for $310,000 from Nei in October 2022 and upped it by $100,000 the next m