New court actions on Rocky Boy fraud, embezzlements

A former tribal council member at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was scheduled to plead guilty to charges today in federal District Court in Great Falls in three separate cases alleging fraud, corruption, embezzlement and tax evasion.

This comes after two weeks of activitiy in the court where more off-reservation people have been charged in a case alleging use of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s online lending business to facilitate and hide fraud and embezzlement on the reservation, and a Billings businessman faces new charges in yet another case.

Brian Kelly Eagleman, 53, a former member of the tri...