Former Portage Mayor James Snyder stands near the entrance of the federal courthouse in Hammond on the first day of his retrial on March 9, 2021.While the U.S. Supreme Court overturned former Portage Mayor James Snyder’s conviction on a felony bribery charge Wednesday, his conviction on defrauding the IRS stands, as does the possibility that he could turn to the city of Portage and ask for reimbursement for his legal fees in the bribery case since the charge involved his duties as mayor.
Snyder received a sentence of 21 months in prison for the bribery and IRS convictions and a year on supervised release from U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly. Still, Bennett said he has remained involved in the case informally since the end of Snyder’s second trial in district court. Under Indiana Code, the fiscal body, the city council in this case, “shall reimburse the officer or employee for reasonable and customarily charged expenses, as determined by the fiscal body of the unit or municipal corporation, incurred in the officer’s or employee’s defense against those charges, if all charges have been dismissed or the officer or employee has been found not guilty of all charges.
Since the felony conviction on the IRS count stands, Czilli said he would argue that Snyder isn’t eligible for any reimbursement from the city. Since Snyder already tried once to get the city to pay his legal expenses, Czilli said, “I fully expect him to do it again.” Porter County Commissioner Laura Blaney, D-South, said she will propose a gratuities ordinance for the county at the board’s July 16 meeting.
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