Ex-Indiana mayor stays free for appeal of bribery conviction

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A erstwhile northwestern Indiana politician is being allowed to enactment retired of situation portion helium appeals his condemnation connected bribery and taxation evasion charges.

A national justice ruled this past week that erstwhile Portage Mayor James Snyder had morganatic issues for entreaty and could stay escaped connected enslaved alternatively than surrender connected Jan. 5 to statesman serving a 21-month situation sentence.

A assemblage convicted Snyder successful March of taking a $13,000 bribe successful 2014 successful instrumentality for steering a $1.1 cardinal metropolis declaration to a trucking company.

Snyder, a Republican, has maintained the wealth was outgo for consulting enactment that helium declared connected his income taxation returns.