Posted on 07/11/2002 3:09:46 PM PDT by yoe
In stark contrast to President Bush's urgent call for "corporate responsibility," and to stop the scandals rocking Wall Street, The White House along with Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General are seeking legislation to obstruct the ability of the United States District Court in the landmark Indian trust lawsuit, Cobell v. Norton, to uncover the full scope of malfeasance in the government's mismanagement of billions of dollars of assets held in trust for 500,000 individual Indian trust beneficiaries.
Specifically, the White House has asked Congress to appropriate millions of dollars in tax revenue to hire private attorneys to protect government officials who have breached their fiduciary responsibilities and have covered-up their misconduct by destroying tens of thousands of boxes of documents and electronic trust records throughout the six-year case. Worse still, the government deliberately has failed to provide adequate information technology (IT) security for individual Indian trust funds, exposing billions of dollars of trust monies to theft, loss, and misappropriation.
At the same time, the White House has requested that Congress cut off funds for judicial officers who have begun to expose the nature and scope of this massive government financial scandal and has asked Congress to cut off funds for the full accounting ordered by United States District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth and the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The malfeasance committed by the government exceeds in aggregate the financial losses and document destruction that have been reported for Enron, Global Crossing and MCI-WorldCom.
Lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell expressed anger and frustration in this unprecedented effort to protect administration officials who deliberately violate the law and breach their trust duties:
"It is very strange that the President acts aggressively to prosecute chief executive officers of public companies for their corrupt activities at the same time the President attempts to protect government officials who engage in precisely the same misconduct. If the President is correct that this behavior is criminal and must be stopped now, and he is, why is cooking the books and cover-up acceptable when done by officials in his Administration? Congress should send a clear message to the White House that this will not be tolerated. And, the public should be outraged by this naked abuse of power."
For further information, contact: visit http://www.indiantrust.com or contact Mia Merrick at (402) 878.4244
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, ...
... MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN
McCAIN? Crime/Corruption Front Page News Keywords: EMPRISE, MCCAIN, KEMPER ...
BLOOD TRAIL: Arizona's BRUCE BABBITT knew in 1980 ... [Free ...
... BLOOD TRAIL: Arizona's BRUCE BABBITT knew in 1980 ... Crime/Corruption Front Page
News Keywords: BAD TAINTED BLOOD TRAIL BABBITT ARIZONA SUIT Source: 622 F.2d ...
MARCH ON SELMA, RIDING IN THE BACK OF THE BUS IN SEARCH ...
... MARCH ON SELMA, RIDING IN THE BACK OF THE BUS IN SEARCH OF BRUCE BABBITT Crime/Corruption
Front Page Editorial Keywords: BABBITT, LAND GRAB, GAIL NORTON, OREGON ...
Lab warned fire officials against prescribed burn [Free ...
... Joan Anzelmo said Darling's comments were unavailable to Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt before his May 18 news conference releasing an interagency report on ...
SAVE KENNEWICK MAN ! [Free Republic]
... in the United States - may now vanish. On Sept. 25, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
announced plans to give Kennewick Man to modern Indian tribes who want to ...
President locks up 1 million more acres [Free Republic]
... Act of 1906, Clinton on Thursday followed the recommendations of Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt and signed proclamations designating Vermilion Cliffs ...
$3,400,000,000,000 (Trillion) of Taxpayers' Money Is Missing [ ...
... W. Bush should request a warrant for the arrest of Bruce Babbitt for gross malfeasance
in office and for violating numerous federal laws governing his duties. ...
**Bill Clinton: My Reasons for the Pardons** [Free Republic]
... She was the independent counsel that cleared Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in
the Indian Casino case that came out of the 1996 campaign finance scandal. ...
Shredding 162 Boxes [Free Republic]
... in charge of assembling the records resigned in protest and charged that Secretary
Bruce Babbitt was making him into a scapegoat for the failures of his own ...
Old AIDS case challenges chimpanzee link [Free Republic]
... the CDC conference. Why then did Bruce Babbitt, Bill Clinton, Edwin Edwards and
others farm their prison populations through the 80's. Arkansas and Louisiana ...
CLINTON CRANKS OUT LAST-MINUTE EXECUTIVE ORDERS [Free Republic ...
... Following the recommendation of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who is desperate
to lock away his beloved West from everyone but wealthy eco-elitists like ...
Sierra Club Faces [Free Republic]
... sauropod, Alamo-Girl. One of the groups listed after the article is ran by Bruce
Babbitt, and the land trust that buys land from willing owners and then sells ...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.