Founder of Full Tilt Poker Pleads Guilty to Fraud in Federal Court

ICTMN Staff
April 17, 2013
The founder of an Internet poker company operated from Dublin, Ireland, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court, reported the Associated Press ...

Abramoff Associate Kevin Ring's Conviction Upheld in DC Appeals Court

Gale Courey Toensing
January 28, 2013
The appeals court for the District of Columbia has upheld the conviction of Kevin Ring, a former associate of former Republican lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff, who plea...

Nearly 20,000 'Suspicious Activities' Reported in Indian Gaming 2004-11

Mark Fogarty
March 09, 2012
American Indian casinos filed 26 percent of all gaming suspicious activity reports (SARs) to the federal government during the years 2004 to June 30, 2011, and 16 percent of the do...

Court Denies Abramoff’s Partner-in-Crime Reduction of $20M Restitution to Ripped-Off Indians

Gale Courey Toensing
January 23, 2012
A federal appeals court denied a request from the former business partner of convicted Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to reduce the $20 million restitution order against h...

Fraudsters Who Toppled Two Aboriginal Organizations Get Prison Time

Wawmeesh Hamilton
January 20, 2012
A British Columbia Supreme Court Judge has netted out prison sentences to two men who defrauded two aboriginal rights organizations out of nearly one million dollars...

Abramoff Making the Image-Rehab Rounds

ICTMN Staff
November 13, 2011
Jack Abramoff, notorious in Indian country for having bilked tribes out of millions of dollars, is out of prison and trying to resuscitate his image, with the media's help...

Two Aboriginals Await Embezzlement Sentencing in Case that Sank Two Fisheries Groups

Wawmeesh Hamilton
November 07, 2011
A British Columbia Supreme Court justice is mulling the sentences of two aboriginal men who defrauded two aboriginal organizations out of nearly $1 million, causing the groups’ dem...

Jack Is Back: Convicted Former Republican Lobbyist Abramoff Publishes Memoir

Gale Courey Toensing
November 05, 2011
Jack Abramoff, the former Republican lobbyist and convicted felon who bilked American Indian nations of more than $82 million, may very well be earning another tidy sum from a book...

Investor in Bankrupt Insurance Agency Launches Native Nations Insurance

ICTMN Staff
August 10, 2011
Gary Shovlain lost $2.7 million of his $3.7 million investment in First Americans Insurance Service (FAIS)...

Tribe Rehires Casino Manager After Accusing Him of Fraud in ’06

ICTMN Staff
August 09, 2011
The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council has rehired its casino manager who held the post from 1994 to 2006, when he was fired and accused of fraud and abuse of tribal property, reported S...

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