06152015 - News Article - FBI visits Porter County office, but no one's talking

FBI visits Porter County office, but no one's talking
Chicago Tribune
June 15, 2015
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-porter-fbi-visit-st-0617-20150616-story.html

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations went through the Porter County Board of Commissioners' office late Tuesday morning, but no one will say why they were there.

Neither the commissioners nor county attorney Betty Knight would say why the agents were in the office, located in the county's administration building in Valparaiso, or what types of documents or information they may have been after – or acquired.

A special agent with the FBI did not return a call seeking comment.

Agents made frequent visits to county offices in late 2013 and early 2014 for a wide array of documents.

Those include conflict of interest statements filed with Clerk Karen Martin; communications from the servicing agent for the county's health insurance regarding the county's contract for clinic services; highway department bids and contracts for services and supplies for 2010 and 2011; and copies of building permits in the plan commission office regarding Porter Regional Hospital and a nearby medical office building.

So far, nothing has come of any of the investigations.