... Shell said she has been monitoring Southridge-related companies for a while and quickly cautioned that the truth may never be known. “You can’t assume that any of this actually makes any sense,” she said.
It sure didn’t make sense earlier this week to Linda Coker, the tenant relations manager at 3625 N. Hall St., the Oak Lawn office building with the supposed headquarters — Suite 900 — of Southridge and its mining subsidiary, Southridge Minerals.
“Three federal agents were here this morning asking the same questions you are,” she told a reporter.
She said Southridge doesn’t lease space in the building. Later, after searching records, she indicated that at one time, years ago, Southridge might have been serviced by a temporary or virtual office operation that had space in the building.
And those federal agents?
“Homeland Security, I think, but I’m not sure,” Coker said.