Federal trucking records and Indiana state records reviewed by Loomered.com raise serious new questions about Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales, whose office is already under fire after reports that he hired a non-citizen staffer who was allegedly voted illegally.
Records show that Morales accepted campaign money from Mahant Transportation LLC, an Avon, Indiana trucking company owned by Indian-born Siddharth Mahant. That same company has four officially documented reportable crashes in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER system, including one injury crash and three tow-away crashes in the 24 months preceding May 24, 2026. FMCSA records also list Mahant Transportation in Avon, Indiana, with 33 power units, 40 drivers, and 72 inspections during that period. The company’s vehicle out-of-service rate is listed at 43.3 percent, compared to the national average of 22.26 percent.
Indiana campaign finance records reviewed by Loomered.com show that Mahant Transportation LLC donated $2,100 to Morales’ “Diego for Indiana” campaign committee on December 31, 2020. Mahant was previously tied to Morales through Principal Logistics LLC, an Indiana business entity where official Indiana Secretary of State business records list Cesar D. Morales as President and governing person, while Siddharth Mahant is listed as the company’s registered agent.
The Principal Logistics LLC filing, dated December 13, 2018, lists Morales in the section for the governing person’s information. Mahant is listed in the same document as the registered agent. The principal office address for Principal Logistics LLC matched the 270 Gable Dr., Avon, Indiana, address used by Mahant Transportation LLC, the very trucking company that later donated $2,100 to Morales’ campaign and currently appears in federal crash data. Morales also lists the same address in his 2018 Republican Candidate Filing information as on the Principal Logistics filing.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records add another layer of concern. FMCSA’s SAFER system lists the entity under the legal name PRINCIPLE LOGISTICS LLC, spelled differently than the Indiana Secretary of State filing, with USDOT Number 3222421. The company is listed as a broker, with an MCS-150 form date of December 13, 2018, which is the same day the Indiana entity was formed. FMCSA records also list its operating authority status as “NOT AUTHORIZED” and show the same Avon address, 270 Gable Dr., used by Mahant Transportation LLC.
That means the same address appears across Morales’ former Mahant-linked logistics company and Mahant’s active trucking company, which has documented crashes in federal safety records.
The timing and circumstances are significant because Avon, Indiana, has already become a focus of federal trucking concerns. On February 23, U.S. Senator Jim Banks urged FMCSA Administrator Derek D. Barrs to investigate potential “chameleon carrier” trucking networks operating in Indiana. Banks specifically pointed to dense clusters of trucking companies in Avon, warning that one recent crash occurred “less than seven miles away from a cul-de-sac in Avon with sixteen carriers.”
It’s worth noting that the letter also states that seven Indiana residents were killed in six months by illegal alien truckers, whose drivers work for these chameleon network trucking companies.
That is the same general Avon trucking ecosystem now linked to Mahant Transportation LLC and the Morales-connected Principal Logistics LLC.
This is exactly the kind of relationship that should trigger questions from voters, regulators, and law enforcement. Why did Morales accept campaign cash from a trucking company owned by a man with whom he had a direct business relationship? Why was Morales listed as president of a Mahant-linked logistics entity? Why did that entity share the same Avon address as Mahant Transportation LLC? And why does the FMCSA record for the related logistics entity show “NOT AUTHORIZED” operating authority?
These questions come as Morales is facing a political firestorm in Indiana. Recent reporting says U.S. Senator Jim Banks and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita withdrew their support for Morales’ reelection campaign and urged him to suspend his campaign. Rokita said he no longer believes Morales can win in November because of “self-inflicted wounds and issues.” Banks then endorsed Max Engling, a senior advisor in his Senate office.
The situation became even worse following reports that Banks changed course after Morales allegedly lied to him about hiring a non-citizen as his chief of staff, who was also illegally registered to vote. News Now Warsaw reported that Morales lost support from Banks and Rokita, but said he would not end his reelection bid.
Indiana State Treasurer Daniel Elliott has gone even further, calling on Morales to resign immediately. Elliott said the controversies surrounding Morales, including “allegations of corruption and mismanagement” and the news that his chief of staff was a non-citizen allegedly registered to vote, had “shattered confidence in the office.”
Laura Loomer previously highlighted the Morales controversy here:
Now there is a new problem: Morales’ documented connection to an Avon trucking network figure whose company donated to his campaign and whose active motor carrier has four reportable crashes in federal records.
Morales is Indiana’s chief elections officer. His office oversees elections, business services, securities, and auto dealer services. That makes these records even more troubling. The public has a right to know whether the state’s top elections official used his political operation to benefit from donors tied to his own prior business relationships, and whether those relationships involved trucking entities now surrounded by regulatory red flags.
Morales has built his public image around election integrity and border security. But the record now shows a widening pattern of contradictions: a non-citizen staffing scandal in the elections office, mounting Republican calls for him to step aside, and a campaign donation from a crash-plagued trucking company owned by his former business partner.
Indiana voters deserve answers. They deserve to know why their Secretary of State took money from Mahant Transportation LLC. They deserve to know the full extent of Morales’ business relationship with Siddharth Mahant. They deserve to know whether any other Mahant-linked entities had access, influence, or proximity to Morales’ political operation or public office.
One thing is clear: Diego Morales’ problems are becoming a pattern, and his chances of winning the general election grow slimmer by the day.
