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Elected as a reform county prosecutor in 1952, Metro Holovachka was later convicted of tax evasion. Former Gary Mayor George Chacharis was also caught on a tax-evasion charge in 1962 for failure to report $226,686 in kickbacks from contractors doing business with the city. Both could have learned from Chacharis' more astute predecessor. Mayor Peter Mandich, a U.S. attorney told a federal court, "received large amounts of graft payments, but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns." Mandich went free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana: The Abandoned County | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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