Rocky Boy embezzler Huston's sentencing rescheduled for March

One of the people indicted during the Guardians Project investigation of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was scheduled to be sentenced today, but the hearing has been moved to March.

Shad James Huston, who lives in Havre and is a former Havre Public School District Board of Trustees chair, has had his sentencing pushed back to March 12.

Huston pleaded guilty Aug. 25 to three charges: theft from an Indian tribal organization, failure to file currency transaction reports and bribery of a tribal official.

He and others including Rocky Boy officials John “Chance” Houle, Tony Belcourt, Bruce Sunchild and Fawn Tadios, were caught in the corruption investigations made by the Guardians Project, which was created for that purpose and has thus far issued dozens of indictments in several reservations across the state.

The project coordinates investigations between various federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Reclamation, Internal Revenue Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Department of Health and Human Services.