The government mismanages everyone’s funds. When do the rest of us get paid?
You fellows are on the mark.
What happened here is that tribal land and trust-fund administration was gradually turned over from regular (mostly white, it is true) civil service bureaucrats to tribal bureaucrats who either couldn’t or didn’t manage the accounts openly and honestly...so all the federal and private dollars that were poured into tribal accounts over the past 30 years simply can’t be accounted for.
There are no records, there is no paper trail, yet the money has all been spent, including some good part of it that went to the purposes it was intended to go to.
Instead of digging in and finding the fraud and incompetence and punishing those responsible, the Justice Department has determined (once again) to turn to the taxpayers to pay and repay for mistakes & crimes committed by federal employees.
Same old waste and corruption, same old remedy. Give give give ‘em more.