February 27, 2013
The Statehouse FileThe Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make it illegal to take unauthorized pictures or video of operations at
a manufacturing or farming business.
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February 26, 2013
Scott OlsonThe Indiana securities division accuses Charles Blackwelder, Chad Blackwelder and Cara Grumme of defrauding elderly investors
in a scheme to sell ownership interests in rental properties.
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February 23, 2013
Associated PressA plan to overhaul Indiana's criminal sentencing laws is moving through the Legislature with broad bipartisan support, although
some county officials are worried it will shift costs to the local level.
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February 21, 2013
Bloomberg NewsThe governing body for college sports says that the state is violating the U.S. Constitution by passing a law that confiscates
the $60 million sanction imposed against Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse case.
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February 21, 2013
A state commission found a Florida man can proceed with a civil rights complaint against the Indianapolis-based airline after
it allegedly refused to consider him for a flight attendant's job because of the tattoos on his forearms.
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February 20, 2013
Scott OlsonA lawyer from one of the nation's largest law firms is handling the convicted financier's federal appeal free of charge, court
documents show.
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February 19, 2013
Associated PressThe U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to side with Monsanto Co. in its claim that an Indiana farmer violated the
company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.
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February 18, 2013
Associated PressThe court case poses the question of an Indiana farmer's actions violated the patent rights held by Monsanto, which developed
seeds that survive when farmers spray their fields with Roundup weed-killer. The seeds dominate agriculture, including in
Indiana, where more than 90 percent of soybeans are Roundup Ready.
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February 18, 2013
Scott OlsonThe issue will be decided by Judge Sarah Evans Barker, who presided over a two-week civil trial that saw a federal jury return
a $2.2 million judgment against the former CEO of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. late Friday night.
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February 16, 2013
IBJ StaffA federal jury returned a $2.2 million judgment against iconic Marsh Supermarkets CEO Don Marsh late Friday, finding that
he tapped corporate coffers for personal expenses.
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February 15, 2013
Scott Olson, Cory SchoutenA company lawyer itemized the expenses Marsh Supermarkets believes it is owed during closing arguments Friday. A lawyer for
Don Marsh argued that he neither committed fraud nor breached his contract.
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February 15, 2013
Dan HumanAn Indianapolis drywall contractor faces criminal charges that he underpaid his employees working on a government housing
project, and then falsified documents to cover it up, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday.
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February 15, 2013
Cory SchoutenManuel Gonzalez has been acquitted of three counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering in connection with a
scheme that targeted an Indianapolis physician. Former City-County Councilor Paul Bateman pleaded guilty last month to participating
in the scheme.
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February 14, 2013
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Lawyers for the former CEO of Marsh Supermarkets on Thursday hammered home their claims his expenses were widely accepted
in the company as normal business costs, while witness testimony revealed a corporate culture that passed the buck on evaluating
those costs.
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February 13, 2013
Scott OlsonLawyers for Don Marsh got their first chance to go on the offensive Wednesday after Marsh Supermarkets Inc. rested its case
against the company's former CEO.
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February 12, 2013
Scott OlsonThe former Marsh Supermarkets president told jurors: "Every time I used [the plane] I had a time constraint, and my time was
valuable to the company."
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February 12, 2013
Scott OlsonAny feelings of satisfaction that Sun Capital Partners executives had after completing the acquisition of Marsh Supermarkets
Inc. quickly turned to "shock and surprise," a managing director of the private-equity firm told jurors Tuesday.
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February 11, 2013
Scott OlsonAt least twice a month during the year 2000, the pilot told jurors, he ferried Don Marsh to New York City to visit one of
his mistresses. Marsh Supermarkets is suing its former CEO in an attempt to recoup more than $3 million in what it claims
are personal expenses.
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February 11, 2013
Cory SchoutenAn Indianapolis physician who lost $1.7 million in a fraud scheme orchestrated in part by former Democratic City-County Councilor
Paul C. Bateman Jr. has sued Bateman and two associates in Marion Circuit Court. The civil lawsuit comes as a criminal trial
stemming from the case begins in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
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February 9, 2013
Greg AndrewsWhat’s extraordinary about the spending spree was that it continued even as Marsh Supermarkets' financial condition
grew increasingly precarious.
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February 8, 2013
Scott OlsonSt. Elmo Steakhouse owner Stephen Huse testified that directors had a hard time keeping Don Marsh focused on a potential sale
of the company as it teetered toward insolvency.
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February 8, 2013
Scott OlsonThe former executive of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. said he became so concerned about the company's deteriorating finances less
than a decade ago that he took the desperate step of meeting with bankruptcy lawyers.
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February 8, 2013
Associated PressPurdue University is opening up intellectual property rights to student-inventors who make technological breakthroughs using
university resources.
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February 7, 2013
Scott OlsonThe disclosure came during the fourth day of Don Marsh's civil trial. The locally based supermarket chain is alleging he used
company funds to pay more than $3 million in personal expenses.
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February 7, 2013
Bloomberg NewsThe Indianapolis-based National Collegiate Athletic Association asked a federal judge to throw out a Pennsylvania lawsuit
challenging penalties imposed on Pennsylvania State University over the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse case.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.