Lake Station mayor, wife seek trial delay
Post-Tribune (IN)
September 20, 2014
Lake Station Mayor Keith Soderquist , his wife and his stepdaughter are seeking to delay their criminal trials until February.
In two motions filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond, attorneys for Soderquist and his family say that his wife, Deborah Soderquist , is experiencing health problems that make it impossible for her to take part in her two trials, which are scheduled to begin Oct. 20.
They are asking that the trials be continued until at least February.
A federal grand jury indicted Soderquist and his wife in April in two separate cases. In the first case, the two are accused of using money from the mayor’s election campaign fund and money meant for Lake Station’s food pantry for personal use, including several gambling trips to Michigan.
In the second case, Deborah Soderquist ’s daughter, Miranda Blakely, is charged with stealing money from the city when she worked there as a court clerk and not reporting it as income when she filed for bankruptcy.
The mayor and his wife are charged in that case with helping her after the fact and with money structuring.
All three have pleaded not guilty in the case.
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