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A federal court judge has set a date for the trial of six people accused of embezzling federal money slated for a regional water project.
Tony James Belcourt, Hailey Lee Belcourt and John “Chance” Houle, all of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, and James Howard Eastlick, Tammy Kay Leischner and Mark Craig Leischner, all of Laurel, each face 17 charges stemming from accusations they embezzled money allocated as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water Project.
Judge Dana L. Christensen set the trial on the charges for Nov. 12.
The Chippewa Cree Construction Corp., of which Tony Belcourt is the CEO, is the lead contractor on the project, will provide water to nearly 30,000 people, including residents of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and people across north-central Montana off the reservation.
Houle is the vice chair of the construction company’s board and a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s governing body, the Business Committee.
The Business Committee announced after the initial arraignments that it was suspending without pay the tribal employees charged.
Reader Comments(4)
outtahere writes:
nail 'em everyone of them, send them to prison, especially Chance Hamilton, our tribes whiteman, he ruined our rez and the people.. and please IG's and FBI, get the rest of the 28 villians (thieves) we don't need these types of people living on our land, they are so greedy. the pay scale here on the rez is outrageous... $100,000.00 a year jobs.
06/20/2013, 10:28 am
anothercree writes:
To whatabout, how many times do you need to be told that's not DR. Eastlick, that's his dad?? Are you ignorant or just plain stupid??
06/16/2013, 7:55 pm
AreYouKeeeding writes:
And the corruption continues.
06/14/2013, 6:34 pm
whatabout writes:
Isn't the newspaper ever gonna comment on what Eastlick used to do out at Rocky Boy?
06/14/2013, 11:44 am