IBJNews

  • Home

2012 NEWSMAKER: Crime stance returns Hogsett to political spotlight

 IBJ Staff
December 28, 2012
Keywords
2012 Year in Review, Attorneys, Government & Economic Development, Law
Back to TopCommentsE-mailPrint
Year In Review
More
Stories
City successfully stages Super Bowl, shoots for another Indiana adopts right to work WellPoint investors force Braly ouster Judge lays into Durham, sentences him to 50 years ISO reaches new contract, launches fundraising spree Developers unleash blitz of apartment projects Hoosier voters tap Pence to continue Daniels' legacy Daniels wins presidency—at Purdue City projects move ahead, following clash over TIF Indy airport sends CEO Clark packing In election shocker, voters bounce schools chief Bennett Bernard bounced as IndyCar Series CEO Digital marketer ExactTarget splashed onto NYSE


Newsmakers
2012 NEWSMAKER: School librarian Ritz won with grass-roots campaign 2012 NEWSMAKER: Crime stance returns Hogsett to political spotlight 2012 NEWSMAKER: Council Dem Mahern plays role of antagonist 2012 NEWSMAKER: CEO keeps Simon stock surging 2012 NEWSMAKER: Miles adds to diverse business, sports career Other 2012 news of note

U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett’s openly tough-on-crime approach has some political insiders speculating whether he’s seeking a higher office.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Hogsett as the top federal prosecutor for central and southern Indiana in September 2010, after he withdrew from the race for Indianapolis mayor.

joe-hogsett-15col.jpg (IBJ file photo)

Now some Democrats can’t help but wonder if he’s eyeing another run for city office in 2015.

The Indy Democrat Blog insinuated as much in June when it recapped Hogsett’s previous run, which ended when he bowed out to eventual candidate Melina Kennedy.

“He made a lot of friends in his run for mayor, and he would also be an excellent candidate again,” the blog said, noting that his political Rolodex includes the likes of Bill Clinton, Evan Bayh and many others.

For his part, Hogsett told IBJ in December that he’s “busy serving southern and central Indiana as the United States attorney” and any talk of where he might be in the future is speculation.

Hogsett, 56, has a political pedigree that spans nearly 25 years. He was Indiana’s secretary of state from 1989 to 1994 and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate and state attorney general. He was a chief of staff for then-Gov. Evan Bayh and is a former state Democratic chairman.

But the anti-crime initiatives he’s introduced and the convictions he’s won as U.S. attorney have brought him back into the political spotlight.

The conviction on fraud charges his office secured against Tim Durham helped send the Indianapolis businessman to federal prison for 50 years. Along with two associates, Durham defrauded hundreds of investors of $250 million.

Hogsett lauded the sentence as the longest in Indiana history for a white-collar fraud conviction.

“We hope that today’s decision does send a warning to others in Indiana that, if you sacrifice truth in the name of greed, if you steal from another’s dream to enhance your own, you will be caught and you will pay the significant price that Mr. Durham will now begin to pay,” Hogsett said following the November sentencing.•
 

ADVERTISEMENT

Post a comment to this story

COMMENTS POLICY
We reserve the right to remove any post that we feel is obscene, profane, vulgar, racist, sexually explicit, abusive, or hateful.
 
You are legally responsible for what you post and your anonymity is not guaranteed.
 
Posts that insult, defame, threaten, harass or abuse other readers or people mentioned in IBJ editorial content are also subject to removal. Please respect the privacy of individuals and refrain from posting personal information.
 
No solicitations, spamming or advertisements are allowed. Readers may post links to other informational websites that are relevant to the topic at hand, but please do not link to objectionable material.
 
We may remove messages that are unrelated to the topic, encourage illegal activity, use all capital letters or are unreadable.
 

Messages that are flagged by readers as objectionable will be reviewed and may or may not be removed. Please do not flag a post simply because you disagree with it.

ADVANCED SEARCH
Sponsored by
ADVERTISEMENT

facebook - twitter on Facebook & Twitter

Follow on TwitterFollow IBJ on Facebook:
Follow on TwitterFollow IBJ's Tweets on these topics:
 
Subscribe to IBJ

  1. In my opinion the estridge companies are crooks. They filed bankruptcy on their 'track housing' side of the business two weeks before they closed on one of my clients' homes. When my client first interviewed Estridge as a builder 6 months before, they specifically ASKED about the solvency of their business, knowing that some builders were struggling. Estridge truly misrepresented their financial situation at that time. I suppose I am more unhappy with the whole system than I am with the builder because what the heck==you can file bankruptcy on 'track homes' but still keep building and make money off of 'custom built' homes??? How ridiculous! They are all homes. How can a company be allowed to bilk thousands of dollars from their subcontractors but still be allowed to build houses?? they should have been made to pay back all their unpaid contractors before being allowed to profit from building any more houses! This alone makes them and the system crooks in my eyes. I would never build an estridge home and I would not recommend for my clients either. If they were truly 'bankrupt' how could they afford to keep building homes anyway??? The whole system needs fixed.

  2. I live a couple blocks east of the Angie's campus and my house is assessed for ~$160,000. If I could get that amount, let alone $384,000 (a 140% bonus), I'd sell in a minute. Either Angie's stockholders just got fleeced, or Angie's is getting about a 58% discount on their property taxes, if these properties are actually worth what they paid Mr. Oesterle for them. Which do you think is the case?

  3. Perhaps the IMA board is really to blame! They agreed to hire Charles. They can't seemingly find donors among themselves, or bring in new blood that will support the museums operating budget with an expanded museum and money to provide curators with something to do (ie buy art). The headlines of disarray at the museum and mass firings are hurting the reputation of the museum for some time to come. If people on the board had misgivings, perhaps they shpuld have more forcefully opposed efforts that they have seemingly been unable to fund, like expansion and the costs it has created!

  4. See, I told u Indyman and Dipsicle....this 8 days is overkill. It's barely worth a weekend....great job Tony George! Your dream has been fulfilled....he fans want the I r l back. Thats how good it was.....and that sucked.

  5. I have been in training for a short time now but right off I can see that safety and quality are the number one issues, my experience as of late has been a positive one, the employees along with Jeff the plant manager and the operation supervisor as well as the engineers are a highly motivated group of people, what an asset for the area to have and for company's in need of a quality metal products.

ADVERTISEMENT