Ya, messy, messy messy.  We’re going to try to catch up.  It’s been a minute….but the irony is, what happened to Reel Wamps recently is about to happen to the Tribe.  We forgot to pay the bill and we were down for a few days. We paid the bill and here we are. In the case of Cedric and the bootleg council, it’s out of money, laying off people ( Tah Tah and the Deaconess to name a few) facing the dreaded federal lawsuit ruling that is likely to make us a landless tribe and there is no plan B.

No plan B. No way to pay the light bill or the mortgage on the council building falling apart. There is a lot of jibberish from the Running Bear chairman who continues to beg Genting to loan the tribe more and more money for his salary, Ann Marie’s and Treasurer Gordon Harris.  Harris hasn’t been to a meeting in months and still gets paid out of the dwindling funds. Jessie just doesn’t come to the council at all because she says she doesn’t want to be abused.  If she did something, maybe people wouldn’t cuss her out.

Ahem, and there’s the matter of the grand jury. The secret grand jury…more tomorrow.

Okay, we’re a little late with this, but it was so crazy we had to digest it because we thought it was a prank.

Treasurer Gordon Harris is easily manipulated and pushed up to perform stupid dog tricks; he should have listened to his father, who told him not to run for office.

But anyway how about “Knees Knocking” aka Gordon Harris tribal treasurer, was using old talking points from Ceddie Lou and Mark Harding’s smear campaign ….during a council meeting he brought up the tired accusation that two tribal officers (from the previous administration)  owed the tribe money…………Well now ain’t that nothin’? That accusation was debunked years ago…is that all you got “KK”?

Everyone that’s a paid council member owes the tribe money, big money, because none of them, especially the officers, do a damned thing. Yah.

Let’s get back to “Knees Knocking,” also known as ” The Coward,” who is trying to distract by bringing up moldy conspiracy theories about who owes the tribe what. Let’s examine what he owes the tribe. He owes us a budget. Despite the federal scrutiny, “KK” continues to violate the tribal constitution that says he was supposed to present us a budget in February.   We are supposed to approve that budget before they start spending. What follow the law? These guys are worse than Trump.  We are governed by a rogue government sliding into a cesspool.

Let’s look at the budget burn since February. Cromwell and his crew have spent 7 million dollars, $2 million of it in cash. Can you imagine what happened to the 2 million dollars in cash? Tell you one damned thing; they didn’t spend it on you. Probably on lawyers for him that are going to end up working against the tribe if they have cut a deal with the government. They spent it all without authority.

BUT THERE’S MORE

Cedric is multi-tasking and taking over as the tribal office manager.  We know it’s ludicrous.  He’s trying to make himself relevant as we enter the last two months of solvency. Instead of trying to save money for us, they are still spending on themselves and unnecessary staff. But Cedric wants to look like he was working as the canoe sinks.  But the move was controversial and created conflict between Cedric and his boy Brian

The Mashpee are pros at mocking. “Ya boy, you’re shovel ready alright.” He wouldn’t deliver the casino. Just clowning for the White people and Genting. We aren’t laughing anymore.

Weeden.  Weeden didn’t think it was right or doable.  Weeden may have been right, in light of the fact that Cedric clearly has no administrative skills, nor can he be an impartial manager and the political leader at the same time. There are very few credentialed professionals in tribal management now.  The pros are in Indian Health Services, and there are a few there whose competence is questionable and need to be reported to Nashville.  But on the tribal council side, who the hell cares, right?  Well, Cedric’s sycophants, Winnie and Ann Marie, threw up some idiotic defense that wasn’t convincing, so they put it to a council vote and made it official.  So you have Tah Tah (the human resource manager, yes that’s correct) and Cedric managing about 20 people. That’s all that’s left. You may also wonder why Tah Tah was brought back in such an important role as human resource manager. It is astounding in light of her many issues and the problems she continues to cause with her erratic and bizarre behavior.But here we are at the end of the nightmare where the council and their leader are on the ledge looking over their shoulder.  As we said, complicity leaves no wiggle room.  Je$$ie, Ann Marie, Mark Harding,”KK” Yvonne, Cheryl, Trish, Winnie, and all the others that voted with Cedric without question indict themselves in their assault on the tribe. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

So Cedric Cromwell is once again on the ledge…desperate. And at the Council meeting he presents his cesspool dive.

• Judge Amanda WhiteEagle said she’s not going to give an advisory opinion. Meaning she’s not going to do anything to stop the recall election.
• Cedric orders the elections committee lead by Rita and his do girl Trish, to cancel the recall election

Just like that. He just does whatever he wants.  Cedric can’t man up.  He just can’t do it. So the committee that was autholrized to oversee the constitutionally mandated recall process was ordered to cancel the election without authority.  In fact the Council can’t do that nor can the committee. The committee has no authority to thwart the Tribes right to vote. Jezus! FED alert.

Out of control. Illegal and a violation of the Tribal Constitution.

Into the cesspool we go.

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

 By Tanner Stening
@tsteningCCT

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.

Mark knows the meaning of circular firing squad.He and Cedric are about to become pros at it.

Reel Wamps has learned that former tribal Treasurer Mark Harding has been subpoenaed in what appears to be an extensive federal investigation into the financial workings of the Mashpee Wampanoag  Tribe under the leadership of Chairman Cedric  Cromwell. The Cromwell administration, with Mark Harding as Treasurer took over in February  2009. Harding was an intricate part of the tribal apparatus, outside contracts and partnerships for more than a decade. Harding and Cromwell were in lockstep deciding tribal money matters, policy and divvying up contracts to favorite lawyers, consultants, and subcontractors both tribal and federal.

Within 7 months of taking office, the new regime burnt through $1.2 million left by the previous administration as surplus and donations to tribal youth. Running out of money and refusing to stay with the old backers, the money dried up. Desperate for new casino backers, and underwriters of their excess,  Mark Harding brought the notorious Genting to the table. Genting is a known preditor of small Native American tribes, most on the east coast. the Pequots, Seneca and finally, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Sources familiar with Gentings business practices surmise that Harding, who struggled as a contractor, probably received a finders fee for serving the Tribe up to the Malaysian gaming moguls.

Former Chairman Glen Marshall had no time for Harding’s whining. Once Marshall smacked Harding and then had him by the throat against a wall. Hazel and Patty had to stop it as Harding pleaed, “kill me, kill me!” Glen Marshall will have the last laugh in the end.

Very unpopular with core tribal members, and humiliated repeatedly by former chairman Glen Marshall, Harding road to power on the coattails of Cromwell under a cloud of an illegal election where pending tribal members voted outnumbering legitimate members on the roll.

Harding was ousted by the popular Robbie Hendricks in 2013.  Harding refused to leave the office, and Hendricks refused to force him out.  In Indian Country, these matters are resolved on election day with a change of locks and family member back up giving the perp a look like “do you want this thrashin’?” Robbie did nothing for weeks, despite angry pleas from supporters and relatives. All hopes of a real tribal member managing the money evaporated as Robbie acquiesced to the corrupt regime.  He presided over the biggest cash haul, and sleight of hand Cedric would concoct in front of the Creator and everyone. And now ,here he is. “I didn’t know,” won’t fly.

Demoralized and suffering from other personal issues, Robbie stepped down, did not seek reelection, and we got the arrogant pretender Gordon Harris.  We won’t review Gordon’s tattered record and his horrible relationship with tribal members. Just review our past posts.

The pain of watching the evolution of Cedric Cromwell.

Cedric Cromwell pulled off the biggest scam since Donald Trump.  He lied about his education.  He went to Roxbury Community College.  He said he handled financial accounts at Fidelity when in fact he was a computer tech.  His worst blasphemy is that he did a miserable imitation of a Mashpee Wampanoag and surrounded himself with the biggest imposters in the tribe.

Harding, on the other hand, never tried to fool anyone or blend in. He was just a jerk who’s insecurity made him appear arrogant. He gave up on trying to belong and just stole everything and stayed on the payroll some kinda way for ten years. For years as treasurer he was writing himself checks on federal grant contracts. The agency even wrote him a letter asking if he was doing it as reported. Just outrageous.

Now there will be a big reveal about the depth of the corruption when it’s over. Cause the subpoenas will keep coming.