Keyword: indiantribes
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House Republicans are probing whether the Department of Justice retaliated against one of their impeachment witnesses — a former business associate of Hunter Biden who revealed a 2014 conversation then-Vice President Biden had with his son and the former mayor of Moscow. Jason Galanis, who is currently serving a 14-year federal prison sentence for defrauding an American Indian tribe, disclosed a May 4, 2014, speaker phone conversation between Hunter and Joe Biden and Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina and her husband, the ex-Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Galanis was interviewed last month from his prison cell in Montgomery, Ala., and during his...
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<p>Hunter Biden told his longtime friend and business partner, Devon Archer, that they would get the "last laugh" after Archer said a judge threw out his conviction, according to 2018 text messages reviewed by Fox News Digital.</p><p>Archer, who is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Monday and is reportedly preparing to tell lawmakers about President Biden's interactions with dozens of Hunter's business associates while he was vice president, informed Hunter Biden in a November 2018 text message that the "judge threw out my conviction today."</p>
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A former business partner of Hunter Biden was sentenced Monday to more than a year in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe of some $60 million in bonds. The defendant, Devon Archer, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison by Manhattan Judge Ronnie Abrams, who said the crime was “too serious” to let him just walk. “There’s no dispute about the harm caused to real people,” Abrams said, noting that the defrauded tribe, the Oglala Sioux, is one of the poorest in the nation. Archer will also have to...
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Monday was Columbus Day, or as liberals have taken to calling, “Indigenous People’s Day.” Democrats love sowing division, blaming Europeans for all of the world’s ills, and elevating the status of Native Americans. Well, they usually do. When it’s a choice between a long-dead Italian guy and American Indians, the choice is easy. When the choice is between their own reelection and anything, everything else loses to self-preservation.Such is the case with Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill.One of my first jobs in Washington was as a health policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. While it may not sound exciting, it...
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His tribe once controlled huge swaths of what is now New York and Connecticut, but the shrunken reservation presided over by Alan Russell today hosts little more than four mostly-dilapidated homes and a pair of rattlesnake dens. The Schaghticoke Indian Tribe leader believes its fortunes may soon be improving. As the U.S. Interior Department overhauls its rules for recognizing American Indian tribes, a nod from the federal government appears within reach, potentially bolstering its claims to surrounding land and opening the door to a tribal-owned casino. “It’s the future generations we’re fighting for,” Russell said. The rules floated by the...
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Indian tribes seek federal bailout money for casinos A native-American tribe struggling to keep its Foxwoods Resort Casino in the red is now turning to the U.S. government for a helping hand. The Associated Press reports that the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has already received more than $4.5 million in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services and from the Interior Department in the last five years. But now members are facing tough times with its casino — which used to be a billion-dollar empire — and are looking at the government for more grants, AP says. Critics...
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It isn’t quite the Akaka Bill sneak attack that many have warned of in recent days, but on page 809-810 of the 2011 Omnibus Appropriations Act, Senator Dan Inouye has slipped in a mandate to the US Department of the Interior: SEC. 125. The Secretary of the Interior shall, with funds appropriated for fiscal year 2011, and in coordination with the State of Hawaii and those offices designated under the Hawaii State Constitution as representative of the Native Hawaiian community, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Attorney General of the United...
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The ruling temporarily puts on hold the new law that prohibits shipping cigarettes through the U.S. Postal Service. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court refuses to consider a tobacco racketeering appeals. ~~~ Federal District Judge Richard Arcara temporarily ordered a new law that disallows cigarettes to be shipped via the mail to be placed on hold, the Associated Press reports. A Seneca Indian Nation tobacco business owner asked for the restraining order to stop the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act) to take effect yesterday. A July 7 hearing has been scheduled to hear the case. “We are very disappointed in...
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From New Hampshire to California, American Indian leaders are speaking out more forcefully about the danger of climate change. Members of six tribes recently gathered near the Baker River in the White Mountains for a sacred ceremony honoring "Earth Mother." Talking Hawk, a Mohawk Indian who asked to be identified by his Indian name, pointed to the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced has caused changes around the globe.
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Showing yet again how out of touch they are with the students and parents whom they claim to serve, the nation’s largest teacher’s union is still blocking attempts of the poor to escape public schools. “Anything that takes away from our ability to better our public schools is wrong,” National Education Association president Reg Weaver said of vouchers, as reported by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. Vouchers would allow the indigent to redirect a portion of public school per-pupil spending to the private school of their choice. “In Oklahoma, the situation is so serious that a recent statewide...
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Indian tribes want Congress to exempt them and their casinos from federal labor laws. At a House hearing Thursday, tribes spoke out for legislation to overturn an order by the National Labor Relations Board that said - for the first time - that sovereign Indian tribes are under the board's jurisdiction. "A tribe is a government," said Joe Garcia, president of the National Congress of American Indians. "Tribal policies must come from within the tribe's government, rather than being imposed from the outside." The labor board's order, which came in response to an organizing dispute at the San Manuel Indian...
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Trying to appease another well-heeled political enemy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a closed-door meeting last week with representatives of 68 California Indian tribes, offering to negotiate new gambling compacts. The Republican governor fielded questions from tribal leaders -- some who operate casinos and others who want to -- in a hotel conference room across the street from the Capitol. Schwarzenegger apologized for not meeting personally with the members of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association earlier to discuss the scope of gambling in the state, which is home to 56 Indian casinos. "He said he was open to negotiating with...
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By all accounts, there are a herd of additional shoes yet to drop in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. The question is whether or not this public scrutiny will be limited to just the low-lying fruit, or if some serious investigations will take place - including an investigation of one of the chief investigators: St. John McCain, Arizona Republican. When stories of Jack Abramoff taking various Indian tribes to the cleaners first hit the press, McCain - Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and author of the un-American, anti-free speech McCain-Feingold campaign censorship law - decided this would be...
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New Info Surfaces Further HighlightingSen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) Hypocrisy; Ties To Jack Abramoff _____________________________________________________Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Claims The Abramoff Scandal Is Only "A Republican Scandal":Reid: "[D]on't Lump Me In With Jack Abramoff. This Is A Republican Scandal. Don't Try To Give Any Of It To Me." (Fox News' "Fox News Sunday," 12/18/05) Click Here To Watch Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Say Abramoff Is A Republican Scandal. Reid: "[T]his Is A Republican Scandal. When The Justice Department Completes Its Investigation, This Will All Be Republicans Involved Criminally." (Judith Kohler, "Salazar, Reid Take Democratic Message To 'Red States,'" The Associated Press,...
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It was no way to treat a lady. On Jan. 15, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote a column praising her paper for exposing crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff. By Jan. 19, a section of the Post's Web site for reader comments was deluged with so much obscene e-mail from outraged liberals that the Post had to shut it down. Mr. Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to defrauding his clients (Indian tribes who owned casinos) and the Internal Revenue Service. Ms. Howell's critics were in high dudgeon over a distinction without a difference. In the seventh paragraph of her column...
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Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) failed today to address rumors that Nevada Senator Harry Reid will step down next month as Senate Minority Leader. Reid has been stung by revelations that his political action committee (PAC) accepted more than $60,000 in contributions from Indian tribes linked to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Appearing on CNN's Late Edition, Biden avoided discussing either the Reid situation or any upcoming changes in Senate Democratic leadership. Reid is no stranger to scandal, having been the subject of a 1979 Justice Department probe into allegations that Reid — then Nevada Gaming Commission chairman — had received bribes...
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Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Lashes Out At Bush Administration, Forgetting His Jack Abramoff Connections "It's unfortunate that a week before President Bush has an opportunity to lay out his agenda, Harry Reid is already mischaracterizing his record of achievement in an effort to score cheap political points. Whether he is taking the battle to the terrorists or delivering prescription drug coverage to America's seniors, President Bush is a proven leader in step with our nation's priorities. By launching bitter, partisan attacks that ignore problems in his own backyard, Senator Reid is emblematic of a minority party that is long on...
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The opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield this month can become the launch for an initiative to change the name of Illinois to that of the State of Abraham Lincoln. I'm serious. Few in the world know what or where Illinois is. Some have heard of Chicago. Yet the world knows Abraham Lincoln--the Great Emancipator; the rock who kept our Union of diverse peoples from fragmenting; the homespun, virtuous, self-educated man of the heartland; a hero, indeed, to all in the world who yearn to be free. In contrast, our citizens have never really resonated...
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A visitor to a pueblo ceremonial dance 32 years ago would have found communal water spigots, dilapidated buildings and outhouses. Tourists sometimes called it "quaint." --snip-- Three decades ago, most New Mexico pueblos relied on natural resource leases, federal money and tourist dollars spent at seasonal ceremonial dances. Per-capita incomes were among the lowest in the United States. Unemployment rates in some cases approached 70 percent. Thanks to gambling, that landscape is changing. The millions of dollars flowing through tribal casinos are building sewer and water systems, new schools, medical clinics and new homes for New Mexico's gaming tribes. New...
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John Doe loves to gamble and, boy, does he have a lot of choices in New Mexico. He can play Las Vegas-style slots, blackjack and poker at 15 Indian casinos, buy lottery tickets at 1,100 outlets, play the ponies and slots at five racetracks or gamble at more than 60 veterans and fraternal clubs. Altogether, an estimated $3.9 billion will be wagered this year at New Mexico casinos, racinos and clubs and on the state lottery. It is a remarkable change from a decade ago when New Mexico gambling was mostly bingo halls, struggling racetracks and some fledgling Indian casinos...
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