Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld’s law firm, Todd & Weld, are the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s lawyers in lawsuits against three individual Tribal members. The text of the legal notice from a local paper reads:
TO DESIREE HENDRICKS-MORENO: In the matter of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council, Inc. and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. Glenn Marshal, Shawn Hendricks, and Desiree Hendricks-Moreno, pending in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Court, Docket No. 2011-005, you are hereby summoned and required to serve upon the attorney for Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council, Inc. and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (“MWT”), David H. Travers, of Todd & Weld, LLP, 28 State Street, 31st Floor, Boston, MA 02109, an Answer to the Complaint against you, within 20 days after publication of this notice. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. You are also required to file your Answer to the Complaint in the office of the Clerk of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Court in Mashpee, Massachusetts. WE COMMAND YOU, Desiree Hendricks-Moreno and your agents to desist and refrain from transferring, secreting, altering or destroying any evidence in this action. March 29, 2013 April 5, 2013
Why, you might ask, is Cromwell doing this? You might also want to ask where he is getting the money to pay a high powered, big city law firm to prosecute the case, when he has no money for services? And how are ordinary Tribe members supposed to defend themselves without bankrupting themselves? Maybe that’s your plan.
Cedric Cromwell, take care. Karma waits around the corner.
