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Shad Huston to plead guilty in corruption case

HELENA (AP) — A Havre businessman agreed to plead guilty to bribing a tribal official and conspiring to make false claims in order to take federal stimulus money awarded to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.

Defendant Shad Huston signed the plea deal on Friday, acknowledging that he bribed a Chippewa Cree official and used fake invoices to get paid for work his companies never did on the reservation.

The deal must be accepted by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris. A previous plea agreement fell through in March when Huston said prosecutors tried to punish him for crimes not included in th...

 
 

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rbcitizen writes:

Good job Feds, This thief and these other thieves sure hurt our people job wise, do you think they care, not one bit, So nail 'em Judge Morris.