LAPORTE, Ind. (AP) - A grand jury has declined to indict a northwestern Indiana prosecutor in a document unsealed days after he lost the primary in his re-election bid.
The no bill of indictment issued by the grand jury on April 25 and made public Friday found insufficient cause for forgery or counterfeiting charges against LaPorte County Prosecutor Robert Szilagyi, The LaPorte County Herald-Argus (https://bit.ly/SQG5EM ) reported.
The grand jury was selected to investigate Szilagyi’s signing of his ex-wife’s signature on a 2009 deed that transferred the home they jointly owned to Szilagyi’s name. Szilagyi said his ex-wife requested the transfer and she approved the forged document.
Alan Sirinek, who represented Szilagyi’s ex-wife in the case and ran against Szilagyi in 2010, said he would not comment on the matter until he saw the document.
In a 2012 settlement of the matter with the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, Szilagyi’s license was suspended for 60 days.
Szilagyi has maintained that the matter was politically motivated. He lost the Democratic primary on Tuesday to another candidate, John Espar.
A special prosecutor, Richard Fleming, was brought in from Howard County. His office was closed Sunday and he could not be reached for comment.
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