Former Calumet Township Trustee Mary Elgin’s public corruption trial has been delayed until April.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John Martin granted the request by Elgin and her co-defendants to continue the trial, which was set to start Monday. He set the new trial date for April 4, according to records with the U.S. District Court in Hammond.
Elgin was charged in December in a 15-count indictment with using her office and employees to run her re-election campaigns, lying to a federal agent, trying to extort a township vendor and failure to file her income tax return.
Her son, Steven Hunter; her secretary, Ethel Shelton, and one of her top deputies, Alex Wheeler, were also charged with helping to use the township office to run election campaigns for Elgin, Shelton and Wheeler.