The scandal engulfing the tribal government is apparent by the latest act of desperation by Cedric Cromwell and his council cronies. It seems to be getting worse because a few weeks ago he was begging for forgiveness on Facebook and wanting to explain his behavior for the last decade at the meeting before the recall election on September 15. That was a pretty pitiful move, because of what he’s done to the tribe, is unforgivable. Maybe he was drunk or something but you can see by the Facebook post he was grasping for anything and everything.
But last night it became clear that the final door was closing. The Cape Cod Times was calling for comment and it just didn’t look good at all. CCT had finally confirmed the story we did 2 months ago about the federal grand jury subpoenas of former Treasurer Robbie Hendricks, and current Treasurer Gordon Harris. All this, of course, will piss off tribal members all over again because everything they feared was confirmed a second time. They were scammed by people who were not Mashpee and dashed their hopes of getting rich. Like Reel Wamps has warned for 10 years. Two hundred-seventy tribal members have to show up, on time, an hour before the recall election for the election to happen. After this torpedo of tribal credibility, tribal members should be running to the polls….that’s Cedric’s greatest fear.
Cedric put his phone number on this desperation play, but we decided not too. Figured he had been cussed out enough. But maybe not.
Current, former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe treasurers subpoenaed
Cedric has used a bipolar strategy of contrition and defiance that has failed. He can’t man up an just walk away.
So at the emergency meeting, knowing he faced hostile tribal members, Cedric
played Russian roulette and plans to file an emergency resolution in the tribal court to stop the recall election. He indicted him self with that move. He’s trying to retroactively kill the recall because he’s run out of options and he’s using a vehicle without credibility. The tribal court is good for nothing and is not used for anything substantial because the tribal government is so corrupt. We can’t even imagine what kind of influence Cedric would exert over the Ho-Chunk Judge Amanda WhiteEagle to get his hands on that last $200K and hold on to power. With nothing left but Middleboro, you can imagine what the next move is? We want to remind Running Bear to expect more incoming. His conflicts of interest with his businesses and the tribe is on the way. We need an emoluments clause to prevent
WhiteEagle in the very ornate tribal court. The pressure on WhiteEagle wil be extraordinary.
the profiteering off the tribe and the office of chairman. And watch for more detail on Cedric’s messy divorce. It’s even messier.
Time to have a talk with Ceddie at the Sunday meeting. Overreach on his part is destroying our opportunity to start over.
