IRS Agents Raid Stimmel Home, Business
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Craig Brosman-
The raid began at 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to Indiana State Troopers posted at Stimmelator’s, 114 E. Washington St., North Webster, for security purposes. IRS agents were on scene until approximately 4:15 p.m. Stimmelator’s opened for business after the IRS left the business.
When the Times-Union spoke with IRS agents at the scene, agents referred reporters to Special Agent and Public Information Officer Kerry Hannigan of the IRS in Chicago.
Hannigan said she was bound by the law not to talk about specifics of the case, but the IRS Criminal Investigation Division was executing a warrant on Stimmel.
Hannigan could not say what the IRS was investigating or what they had removed from the premises of the business and home.
The Times-Union called the United States District Court Clerk’s Office in South Bend in an attempt to obtain the probable cause affidavit for the warrant that was executed. The clerk’s office said that they had no record of a probable cause affidavit in a case for Stimmel and redirected the Times-Union to the United States District Attorney’s Office, South Bend.
The Times-Union contacted the office in South Bend this morning and they said they could neither confirm or deny any case or investigation into Sam Stimmel and redirected the Times-Union to Mary Hatton, the director of community relations for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana.
A phone call to Hatton was not returned as of press time.
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The raid began at 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to Indiana State Troopers posted at Stimmelator’s, 114 E. Washington St., North Webster, for security purposes. IRS agents were on scene until approximately 4:15 p.m. Stimmelator’s opened for business after the IRS left the business.
When the Times-Union spoke with IRS agents at the scene, agents referred reporters to Special Agent and Public Information Officer Kerry Hannigan of the IRS in Chicago.
Hannigan said she was bound by the law not to talk about specifics of the case, but the IRS Criminal Investigation Division was executing a warrant on Stimmel.
Hannigan could not say what the IRS was investigating or what they had removed from the premises of the business and home.
The Times-Union called the United States District Court Clerk’s Office in South Bend in an attempt to obtain the probable cause affidavit for the warrant that was executed. The clerk’s office said that they had no record of a probable cause affidavit in a case for Stimmel and redirected the Times-Union to the United States District Attorney’s Office, South Bend.
The Times-Union contacted the office in South Bend this morning and they said they could neither confirm or deny any case or investigation into Sam Stimmel and redirected the Times-Union to Mary Hatton, the director of community relations for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana.
A phone call to Hatton was not returned as of press time.
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