07232014 - News Article - FBI eyes Portage mayor's finance reports

FBI eyes Portage mayor's finance reports
Post-Tribune
July 23, 2014 9:42AM
Updated: August 28, 2014 6:20AM
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/28807408-418/mayors-campaign-finance-reports-taken-in-portage.html#.VAVSzeqYaM8

VALPARAISO — Agents with the FBI spent about 10 minutes in the Porter County Voter Registration Office last week, getting copies of campaign finance reports for Portage Mayor Jim Snyder.

All of the information is public record and is available on the county’s website, at www.porterco.org, said Sundae Schoon, Republican representative in the office, who handled the agents’ request.

“They asked for copies of Mayor Snyder’s campaign finance reports,” she said, as well as those for a political action committee from his run for mayor in 2011.

The reports covered from 2007, when Snyder first ran for office, to the annual report he filed in 2013.

Snyder issued a written statement in response to the FBI’s request:

“I have been advised that government agents have asked to review my campaign finance records. These records are now, and have always been, available to the public on the Internet. In fact, to my knowledge, I was the first public official in Porter County to post such records in a public forum. My campaign has done nothing wrong, and we look forward to this matter being wrapped up as expeditiously as possible.”