Soderquist campaign reports pulled by FBI
FBI collects Soderquist campaign reports
Post-Tribune
September 01, 2015 - 4:24 PM
A special agent with the FBI Merrillville office pulled campaign finance records Tuesday for embattled Lake Station Mayor Keith Soderquist.
The agent, who declined to be identified, requested the amended campaign finance reports from March 2013 to the present for Soderquist at about 9:45 a.m. at the Board of Elections office in the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point.
She referred any request for comment to the FBI office in Merrillville. Calls directed to Supervisor Bill Rowell were not immediately returned Tuesday.
The request comes on the first day of trial for Soderquist and his wife, Deborah Soderquist, who are charged with using money from his campaign re-election fund and money meant for the Lake Station food pantry to pay for gambling trips during the past several years.
They have pleaded not guilty to one county of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, seven counts of wire fraud, and three counts of filing a false income tax return.
An election board employee later confirmed the request made by the special agent that was witnessed by a Post-Tribune reporter. The records request did not come with a subpoena, she said.
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