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HELENA (AP) — A criminal investigation into the former leaders of the Chippewa Cree Tribe's online lending operations now includes a Nevada company the tribe partnered with in its first attempt to offer payday loans.
The tribe and the leaders of that company, Henderson-based Encore Services LLC, formed First American Capital Resources in 2010. That lending company never succeeded and was overtaken by a second company called Plain Green.
The tribe is now suing Encore and its leaders, Zachary Roberts, Richard Lee Broome, Gordon Jones and Martin Mazzara over $13 million the tribe says they owe.
Roberts, Broome and Mazzara this week asked a federal judge to put that civil case on hold because they are the subjects of a criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office over the lending company.
Reader Comments(1)
rbcitizen writes:
Good job, keep digging, there's still a big long list of thieves up here. FEMA needs to step up and bring there indictments.
08/31/2015, 3:03 pm