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Ousted chairman strongly denies allegations
Ken St. Marks, the suspended Chippewa Cree tribal chair, was removed from office for several reasons including that he spent $40,000 on a Cadillac Escalade without proper authorization and then used the vehicle for personal use.
That’s according to a press release issued by the tribe’s business committee.
They also accused St. Marks with misusing a tribal credit card.
St. Marks said if the tribe is charging him with wrongdoing “bring it on.”
He said he did nothing wrong and called on the tribe to press criminal charges with the U.S. attorney’s office.
“I’ll put my case at the top of the list,”...
Reader Comments(2)
rbcitizen writes:
Geee's... This is like old news, com'on.. man, man-up, all of you, get this over with so the Chippewa Cree people can at least say we have a legal Chairman, and fix this short committee council membership. It's like you all worry about who runs the Money. We all know chance is gone, get this general election done along with the chairmanship election. We have a big future to worry about, a BIG hill to climb.
10/23/2014, 2:29 pm
Stanley Dan writes:
I agree with Mr. St. Marks, he did nothing wrong. After all most tribal employees use department and program vehicles for personal use. Heck, TWRD bought an employee a brand new truck just this year and they haul their kids to basketball tourneys and walmart all the time. So see, he did nothing wrong.
10/23/2014, 11:45 am