May 21, 2013
Cory SchoutenA federal public-corruption task force used a wire tap and an undercover FBI agent to unravel a fraud scheme authorities say
was orchestrated by two city employees and three co-conspirators.
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May 21, 2013
Cory SchoutenFederal prosecutors have charged two city employees in the Department of Metropolitan Development and three others in a scheme
involving cash kickbacks on the sale of properties in the Indy Land Bank.
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May 21, 2013
Associated PressMeasures filed in the Indiana General Assembly this year faced about 1-in-8 odds of making their way to the governor's
desk.
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May 21, 2013
Cory SchoutenFBI agents on Tuesday morning conducted a warrant search at the Department of Metropolitan Development in the City-County
Building, shortly after agents arrested multiple people, including city employees.
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May 20, 2013
IBJ Staff and Associated PressPaul C. Bateman Jr. had pleaded guilty in January to his part in defrauding an Indianapolis physician of $1.7 million.
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May 20, 2013
Associated PressSince January, the state attorney general's office said it has received more than 5,000 complaints about telemarketing
calls from live operators or prerecorded messages.
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May 20, 2013
IBJ Staff and Associated PressGreenwood officials three years ago approved $8.4 million of incentives for the Elona Biotechnologies project, including the
construction loan.
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May 18, 2013
Associated PressIndiana counties could be forced to pay some of the costs of a change in the state's criminal code that is designed to keep
low-level offenders out of prison while ensuring the worst serve more of their sentences.
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May 17, 2013
Associated PressState officials have withdrawn incentives for a fertilizer plant over concerns about whether its Pakistan-based owners are
doing enough at their overseas operations to keep the potentially explosive material from being used against U.S. troops.
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May 17, 2013
Indiana added 4,400 nonfarm jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 8.5 percent, the Indiana Department
of Workforce Development reported Friday morning.
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May 15, 2013
Dan HumanAn Indianapolis City-County Councilor is looking into the possibility of zoning violations at the massive north-side property.
The mansion will host a camp for entrepreneurs in June.
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May 14, 2013
Associated PressThe BMV stopped negotiations with the Indiana Greenways Foundation, the Indiana 4-H Foundation and the Indiana Youth Group.
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May 14, 2013
Mason KingAn industry trade group filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning contending that Indiana liquor law is unconstitutional and unfairly
benefits liquor stores.
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May 13, 2013
Associated PressThe city of Indianapolis faces possibly paying several hundred thousand dollars for a restaurant badly damaged by flooding
that swamped a neighborhood during a downpour a year ago.
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May 13, 2013
Cory SchoutenDavid Wyser, the top deputy under former Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, was charged with bribery for his role in the
early release of a woman convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme.
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May 13, 2013
Rather than raising prices on private health insurers to make up for inadequate payments from the government, hospitals across
the country have been raising prices just because they can, according to a new study.
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May 12, 2013
Associated PressIndiana school districts that won voters' approval last week for the majority of the tax increases they had sought to
boost school funding may be becoming more skilled at selling the public on the need for those tax hikes.
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May 11, 2013
IBJ StaffIndiana Gov. Mike Pence on Saturday signed a bill into law that reshapes Marion County government through the elimination
of four at-large City-County Council seats and other changes.
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May 11, 2013
Associated PressLawmakers voted last month to delay full implementation of the academic standards to allow time to study the potential costs
of implementing or abandoning the standards and hold public meetings.
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May 11, 2013
George Farra / Special to IBJBanks will not return to their status as reliable sources of shareholder dividends for three years or longer.
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May 11, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe developer of a $17 million mixed-use project proposed for Broad Ripple is expected to seek a city subsidy—support
that at least one City-County councilor believes should be reserved for neighborhoods starved for investment farther south.
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May 10, 2013
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mike Pence has signed a bill that will provide a $100 million state loan to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for
planned improvements.
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May 10, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe airport's decision comes as a bipartisan group of City-County Councilors backed a resolution asking airport authority
to drop its case against Midwest Logistics Partners, owner of the Ameriplex business park south of the airport.
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May 10, 2013
Associated PressGov. Mike Pence has picked Cameron Clark to lead the agency that oversees the state's parks, wildlife areas and historic
sites and enforces hunting laws.
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May 10, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinTwo ordinances that would reduce the Indianapolis budget by $1.6 million will be introduced to the City-County Council on
Monday. The largest cuts will come from the Marion County Assessor's office, the parks department and mayor's office.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.