FBI and IRS visit Portage Township assessor seeking tax appeal records
NWI Times
Nov 17, 2017
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PORTAGE — Agents with the FBI and IRS visited the Portage Township assessor's office Tuesday afternoon seeking tax appeal records involving the Great Lakes Peterbilt property at 5900 Southport Road in Portage, according to the assessor.
The agents were interested in an appeal involving SRH LLC, which had owned the property during 2011-12, Assessor Alta Neri said.
The office was working on compiling the requested files Friday afternoon, she said.
Federal agents visited other offices in Portage over the past several years leading up to the November 2016 indictment of Mayor James Snyder.
Snyder, a Republican in his second term, is charged with bribery, extortion and tax evasion. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial, which is set to begin in Hammond district court on Jan. 29.
During a visit to the city's street department in September 2014, FBI agents requested documents related to the purchase of automated garbage trucks from Great Lakes Peterbilt, Clerk-treasurer Chris Stidham said at the time.
City Attorney Gregg Sobkowski had also confirmed the FBI issued a subpoena at the time for all bid packages received by the city for garbage trucks purchased from 2012 to the present.
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