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Theodora Ann Morsette, one of the people indicted in the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation corruption sweep, was found guilty by a jury Wednesday.
The jury found her guilty of theft from an Indian tribal government receiving federal grants, theft from an Indian organization and theft from a health care facility.
Morsette was the finance manager for the Rocky Boy Health Board Clinic of the Chippewa Cree Tribe in Box Elder and embezzled money from it from 2010 to 2013.
She faces 10 years imprisonment with three years of supervised release and $250,000 in fines for both charges of theft from an Indian tribal government and theft from a health care facility and faces five years imprisonment with three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine for the court of theft from an Indian tribal organization.
Her sentencing is set for April 20 at 2:30 p.m. in the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls.
The clinic’s CEO, Fawn Tadios, was also convicted in the ongoing scandal. She is awaiting sentencing.
Reader Comments(1)
rbcitizen writes:
WOW! wonder who's next, good job Guardians Project. Now they'll take it to a higher court and still cost the Tribe and State more money. These embezzlers need to be dealt with. This embezzling is still going on with Tribal Departments on the reservation.
01/30/2015, 3:38 pm