Saturday, September 12, 2015
Lake Station Mayor And Wife Found Guilty Of Misappropriating Funds To Pay Gambling Debts
Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Indiana convinced a jury to convict Lake Station Mayor Keith Soderquist and his wife, Deborah, on charges the couple improperly used funds from his campaign committee and the city's food pantry, relatively petty crimes compared to theft of public assets totaling in the tens of millions of dollars by corrupt politicians in Indianapolis where prosecutors refuse to prosecute crimes of public corruption. The Soderquists were found guilty of 7 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of false filing. Prosecutors contended the couple withdrew about $35,000 from the mayor's campaign committee and another $5,000 from a food pantry fund to help pay gambling debts they ran up at area casinos. Soderquist immediately forfeited his office as a result of the conviction. Democratic precinct committee persons will meet to choose a successor to complete his unexpired term.
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Have the news reports easily identified this crook as a DEMOCRAT mayor? Or do the mouthpieces of the liberal Democrat media machine keep quiet when the crook is a Democrat and make curious voters like me to on a search to learn the truth?
Gary, the crimes committed by the Soderquists are petty compared to "theft of public assets totaling in the tens of millions of dollars by corrupt politicians in Indianapolis where prosecutors refuse to prosecute crimes of public corruption." I located a copy of the Grand Jury INDICTMENT online at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1114970/two.pdf. So, how do the citizens, and especially the taxpayers, convince the Marion County Prosecutor and/or the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana to petition the courts to summon jurors and convene a Grand Jury who would hear and examine evidence concerning Indianapolis crimes, and "take action with respect to this evidence as provided by law? Now that former Gatekeeper of Gozer (a/k/a Ballard) Samantha DeWester, who could never find public documents, or if she did locate requested documents would declare them confidential, has departed for IDEM, does new Public Access Counselor Justin Paicely honor requests for public documents?
Thanks, again, for all the terrific updates on government activities.
Anon 6:46 is right on target. As for DeWester, she symbolizes much of what is wrong, so very wrong, about the Marion County GOP. You would think attorneys would desire to follow the law, not prostitute it.
Convicting this Lake Station pol and his spouse is like catching a
couple of minnows on your annual fishing trip
For some reason this cartoon comes to mind;
http://www.angryflower.com/bankjo.html
"Anon 6:46 is right on target. As for DeWester, she symbolizes much of what is wrong, so very wrong, about the Marion County GOP. You would think attorneys would desire to follow the law, not prostitute it."
Rather appropriate to see the word prostitute and Samantha DeWester in the same sentence
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