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Salinas pleads guilty to federal bribery charge, resigns from council seat
Disgraced Hammond City Councilman Al Salinas resigned from office Monday, just a few hours after pleading guilty to taking more than $10,000 in kickbacks for steering city work to a contractor.
Owner of tree-trimming service pleads guilty to bribing Hammond councilman
HAMMOND | The owner of a local tree-trimming service pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of paying more than $10,000 in bribes to a Hammond city councilman to receive city work.
Munster resident admits to bribing Hammond councilman
HAMMOND | The owner of a tree-trimming service agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to paying a bribe to a Hammond city councilman in exchange for city work, federal court records show.
EDITORIAL: Shore up public's trust in local government
So many public corruption indictments have been handed down against public officials in Lake County over the years that voters run the danger of expecting local government officials to be corrupt. That should prompt action by good, decent, honest officials to shore up the public's trust.
NWI feds nab 6 in separate public corruption cases
HAMMOND | If Indiana's U.S. attorneys lag behind their nationwide colleagues in generating public corruption cases, as recently published federal statistics show, it wasn't apparent Thursday.
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