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Federal auditors expand review of Rocky Boy's aid mismanagement

MATT VOLZ

Associated Press

HELENA — U.S. government auditors are expanding their review of federal disaster aid mismanagement by the Chippewa Cree Tribe after finding fraud, waste and abuse in a project to demolish the Montana tribe’s health clinic that was destroyed by flooding in 2010.

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office recommended the Federal Emergency Management Agency deny the tribe’s $3.9 million claim for the clinic’s demolition, and the auditors now plan to examine all $31.6 million FEMA awarded the tribe after the flooding.

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Reader Comments(1)

rbcitizen writes:

This investigation is going to include a lot of embezzlers on the reservation. It was crazy around here on those years of the flood. Get down to the very bottom of this feds.

 
 
 
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