The First Rule of Embezzling Money from the Tribe is that you have to be a tribal leader imbued with sovereignty in order to avoid charges and jail time.
This is where these Mountain Ute went wrong. They should have won (or stole) an election first and then no one would care.
Ute Mountain Ute members accused of stealing from tribe, laundering money through casino
By KIRK MITCHELL | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
December 18, 2017 at 10:02 am
Seven people charged in fraud scheme
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The most severe charges were filed against Jaramillo, who was an employee of the Ute Mountain Ute’s financial services department.
She was charged with embezzlement and money laundering. She faces up to 10 years in prison on the embezzlement charge and 20 years in prison on the money laundering charge.
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Read full article at link above.
Wow, I wonder who told her to embezzle and money launder or did she do it on her own?
Were the charges brought in order to scare these 7 to see if they rat on bigger fish? Or is this much ado about nothing?
I don't have an opinion either way.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Friday, August 24, 2012
Corruption Exposed At California Indian Casino
This article appeared in the Fresno Bee on August 17th, 2012. The casino is the Thunder Valley Casino owned by the United Auburn Indian Casino. For those keeping tabs on this kind of stuff you may recall Howard Dickstein is an attorney for United Auburn.
The article is titled:
3 charged with defrauding California tribe of $18M By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press
Here are a couple of excerpts:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Three men have been indicted on federal charges of defrauding a casino-operating Indian tribe of more than $18 million through a kickback scheme involving the tribal administrator, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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They are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering in indictments unsealed Friday. The indictment charges that they inflated bills related to a construction project that included new headquarters for the tribe.
Volen, the contractor, is alleged to have paid about $7.5 million in kickbacks to Hinz. Prosecutors say Hinz, the quality-control expert, then used part of his money to buy tribal administrator Baker a Lake Tahoe vacation home, a $54,000 in-ground pool, a $70,000 BMW and a trip to Hawaii, among other things.
In March, the Internal Revenue Service moved to seize 23 properties, including vacation homes in Lake Tahoe and Maui, as part of the investigation.
Read The Full Article Here
The article is titled:
3 charged with defrauding California tribe of $18M By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press
Here are a couple of excerpts:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Three men have been indicted on federal charges of defrauding a casino-operating Indian tribe of more than $18 million through a kickback scheme involving the tribal administrator, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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They are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering in indictments unsealed Friday. The indictment charges that they inflated bills related to a construction project that included new headquarters for the tribe.
Volen, the contractor, is alleged to have paid about $7.5 million in kickbacks to Hinz. Prosecutors say Hinz, the quality-control expert, then used part of his money to buy tribal administrator Baker a Lake Tahoe vacation home, a $54,000 in-ground pool, a $70,000 BMW and a trip to Hawaii, among other things.
In March, the Internal Revenue Service moved to seize 23 properties, including vacation homes in Lake Tahoe and Maui, as part of the investigation.
Read The Full Article Here
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