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ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. -- Today was the initial hearing for Elkhart County Clerk Christopher Anderson and Chief Deputy Clerk Carol Smith.

Last week, an Elkhart grand jury indicted Smith and Anderson for official misconduct and criminal conversion. They are accused of paying county employees more hours than they worked.

ABC57 requested to speak with both Smith and Anderson after their initial hearings on Wednesday morning.

Smith declined to speak with ABC57. Anderson's attorney, Eric Kinsman of Wilson & Kinsman, LLC, provided ABC57 with an on-camera statement:

"My client, Christopher Anderson, has served the people of this county for a quarter century, working in the clerk's of

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