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Once again the Council fails the Tribe and more…..

The sad story of our Tribe is ongoing because certain Council members seem to think they can protect Cedric from a federal grand jury. That’s pretty astounding.  That would be Jessie who was knocking people off the Emergency Council meeting call last night. It’s not like she’s the most popular person in the Tribe. But that little arrogant maneuver was pretty awful. On top of that, Only Brian Weeden, Carlton Hendricks, Jr and Aaron Toby voted to remove Ceddie from the chair. The day before, the attorney for the tribe informed them that the US Attorney called to tell them about another subpoena that targeted Cedric.The “victim” of the illegal election shenanigans where Cedric took 10’s of thousands of dollars was “the Tribe.” Also in the mix is Mark Harding’s Wamp Worx, Cedric’s executive assistant Lou who apparently  had a hand in all that money circulating with Green and others. Meanwhile the paid Council continues to pretend this thing is gossip or something. The fact remains that Cedric and Yvonne were the ones the lead the push to get Glenn Marshall to resign when he was under investigation.  That’s right.and now they’re making excuses to keep Cedric, a foreigner in charge. You damn fools, Cedric can’t take care of himself right now, how can he cover you ?

Call it a red flag, a tipping point, a bad sign, or a bad place to be….. any lawyer will tell you Cedric Cromwell will very likely be indicted by the federal grand jury and arrested.  Clearly he knows that and has lawyered up.The Council officers need to do the same thing in light of the fact that they can’t produce meeting minutes, voter rolls or ballots cast.They can’t produce a damned thing.

When you’re called before a federal grand jury you really need to have a long talk with God and then zoom in his son Jesus.  The last resort is the Devil and he’s likely to tell you he don’t want to be bothered.

Messys’ loyal to a fault. The poor Tobes will never redeem themselves. No doubt she will go down with her cousin Cedric. We can’t go any lower. But maybe not. We never backed them.  Their legacy was not worthy.

Lets get to  Messy  Jessie and the subpoena demand for the enrolled members from 2011. Cedric appointed Jessie to head enrollment to the horror of tribal members. She struggled for about 8 months to figure out the  complex numbering system that assigned roll numbers put together by elders and Patty Oakley. Of course every one of the nearly 600 federally recognized tribes in this nation has their own system .  We were no different.

Hungry for power and revenge for years of election humiliation from poor showings, Jessie loaded over 1600 people  on to the rolls from the infamous ” Red Box.” These were people who did not qualify to be members. These were people who would never be members.  Jessie put em on anyway.  Tribal elders and members got off the committee because they wanted no part of what Jessie as doing.  She was on a mission to build a voter base that would keep her, Cedric, Yvonne and the paid members in power.The core of the Mashpee Tribe was out numbered by the Casino Stalkers looking to get paid by Jessie.  They didn’t know Jessie or Cedric like we do. They kept them in power, despite attempts to restore the true Mashpee to leadership.  And lets be clear, the paid Council members lead by Yvonne made sure they did whatever they wanted, lied cheated and stole our prosperity.  Course they got paid millions to sell us out. Jessie barely won her election in 2017 by 4 votes against Carlton Hendricks ,Jr. because the Casino Stalkers stopped showing up to vote. And the tribal members who knew her wanted new leadership.  But the elections were never real because Cedric had to stay in power for Genting to keep laundering money through the Gaming Commission.  Yvonne was there…on the Gaming Commission from the start.  Yes she was.

The infamous 2009 elections’ records mysteriously disappeared.  You will recall that election was fraught with fraud and corruption because we were overwhelmed by hundreds of strangers who were not on the rolls lined up to vote. We can thank Paula Peters,  her partner Mark Harding,Trish Keliinui,Joann Frye and her sister Ca for that little maneuver.  And Joann’s son Bobby Foster for  disposing of the election records.So f—-ing dumb. The feds may want to request those documents for laughs, yes indeed.  They may want to check with Bobby because that’s where this nightmare began.They cannot produce one shred of paper let alone a voter roll that can be cross referenced with the real voter roll.

Bobby Foster and his boy Dino, his aunts tight man, were the big nickel and dime hustlers…caught up in the net. Dumb as rocks indeed..

The Tribal elders went to the Bureau of Indian Affairs twice to beg for help. All tribes know the BIA.  Just because there are a bunch of Indzn working there doesn’t mean a damn thing.  Native bureaucrats hide behind tribal sovereignty too.

That was how Cedric came to us.  A stranger himself with all the baggage of a greedy outsider who wanted to play Indian, at our expense.  So here we are. And here he is with some serious consequences smacking him in him in the face. The other council sycophants are on trial with Cedric.

Some words from Glen Marshall who bore the brunt of Cedric and Yvonne’s attacks.

omes full circle. And honest to God, we couldn't be more screwed up than we are now.

Glenn Marshall’s detractors are now the target of a federal grand jury investigation

..“I’ve watched them kick the crap out of the constitution, squandered over 600 million dollars and fail to serve the Tribe.  All they had to do was follow the path laid out for them.  They never consulted the elders on anything.  They violated us over and over again. Now it’s their turn. It ain’t fun.”

Below is the news story that we have been talking about for 11 years.

Cedric’s Subpoena story appears on masslive.com

Federal grand jury subpoenas Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe for documents related to the election of Chairman Cedric Cromwell

A federal grand jury investigation into the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is now digging for information on the re-elections of tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell, according to records obtained by MassLive.

Roughly three months after a grand jury requested that the tribe hand over information related to its finances, MassLive has learned that federal officials are requesting that the tribe turn over documents and records related to the 2013 and 2017 elections for tribal council chairperson, according to a copy of an Aug. 10 subpoena obtained by MassLive.

According to the subpoena, federal investigators are seeking voter records, election results and campaign-related materials in the tribe’s possession, including mailers, brochures, photographs, videos, policies on campaign contributions or expenditures and complaints received by the tribe related to the election, any candidate or any candidate’s campaign
Officials are also requesting tribal information identifying the number of enrolled tribal members between 2011 and 2020, as well as copies of all contracts entered into with the former architect of the tribe’s proposed casino project in Taunton — Robinson Green Beretta Corp. Officials are also requesting all meeting minutes of the committees that selected Robinson Green Beretta Corp. to work on the project, called the First Light Resort and Casino.
Grand jury proceedings are largely secret. Roughly two dozen citizens serve on a grand jury, receiving documents and hearing testimony — usually presented only by government attorneys — to determine whether there is probable cause to indict someone on criminal charges.

In June, federal prosecutors requested all records and documents related to the tribe’s finances. A little more than a year ago, a federal grand jury issued subpoenas for the tribe’s sitting treasurer, Gordon Harris, and his predecessor, Robert Hendricks.

It is unclear whether the subpoenas issued in 2019 are related to the requests for information issued in June and in August.

Cromwell, who has led the tribe since 2009, has more recently come under fire for his handling of the tribe’s finances. Sources tell MassLive that the 2,600-member Mashpee tribe has accumulated a debt burden that has spiraled to more than $500 million — money that is owed chiefly to its financier, Genting Malaysia.

That scrutiny reached a boiling point last year when a group of tribe members attempted to oust Cromwell, his vice chairman and treasurer, through a recall process written into the tribe’s constitution. Tribe members cited, among other things, the out-of-control debt and the secrecy surrounding tribal finances. Ultimately, the effort was stymied after the tribe’s Election Committee abruptly canceled the planned recall election in September.

The grand jury subpoena comes several months after the U.S. Department of the Interior told the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that its reservation will be disestablished and the land taken out of trust in what felt like a death blow to a tribe locked in a prolonged legal battle over 321 acres of land in Taunton and its proposal to build a casino there.

A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in a separate lawsuit in early June that the Interior’s decision to take the land out of the trust was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to law,” and remanded the matter back to the federal agency.

Cromwell’s predecessor, Glenn Marshall, spent several years in federal prison in connection with a wide-reaching corruption probe. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison in 2009 for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tribe to pay his own bills, making illegal campaign contributions, filing false tax returns and fraudulently receiving Social Security benefits while holding a full-time job.

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EMERGENCY ZOOM MEETING TONIGHT 5:30 More SUBPOENAS TARGETING CEDRIC

We’ll have to tell you what happened because there is no zoom link to allow tribal members to access the emergency meeting. We know that Cedric should resign because he has made the tribe the ” Victim” of alleged abuse for more than a decade.  Messy Jessie continues to try to protect her cousin by impeding transparency.  She is just as complicit as all the others.

 

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