Reel Wamps

Everyone knows how crooked the tribal housing program is but would you believe that nearly  $100 k has been given out to a very small group of tribal members, mostly Fryes of course…this is extra money on top of the undeserved salaries, granted without qualifications and the infamous 184 housing program loans.  Okay.  It’s called discriminatory practices, frowned upon by HUD, aka the federal government.There’s a clear pattern of discrimination against  tribal members when it comes to the distribution of federal Housing and Urban Development revenues.  Not a Peters, Hicks, Pocknett, Mills, or any of the rest of the tribe got a dime.  It’s a problem. It’s a big problem.

The Tribal Administrator, let’s call him Dr. Jo ( short for Navajo ).  We are a little teeny tiny tribe compared to his of hundreds of thousands.  He pretends he doesn’t know whats  going on sending out all those job descriptions and he still hires Fryes from as far away as Arizona….and his  new hires tribal membership is not verifiable. Way to go Dr. Jo.  Explain your role in the cover up.  You think you’re so smart. When this craziness starts unraveling…soon…you will curse Mark Tilden (Navajo Joe) for bringing you to Mashpee for the quick cash.  Yah.

Back in the day, from January 2008 – Feb 2009, tribal members could watch the Tribal Council public meeting sessions on video tape. If you wanted to read the meeting minutes you could do so in the hard copy log book at the reception area.Tribal Secretary Desi Hendricks also recorded audio tapes  of meetings. Every meeting.  Of course these audio tapes were the official record of minutes for the tribal government.

Now we have  none of the above.  Nothing. No accurate audio, hard copy or video. Probably on purpose because Cedric and his lawyers don’t want a record of this trifling group of unofficial Council Members who can’t conduct business properly.

When Shawn Hendricks was Chairman, by the beginning of 2008, it was decided that video taping the meetings would not only provide a visual record of the meeting, as is the case in government sessions all over the country….but also stop the inappropriate behavior of one Council member in particular.  She would march up and down behind the chairman like a banshee screaming and disrupting the meetings…out of order, like a ghetto fabulous queen.The video taping stopped Cheryl Frye Cromwell from embarrassing herself and the tribe. The video taping forced certain members to behave and conduct business properly.

Carlton Hendricks Jr brought the taping back during the last council meeting and the Cromwellians flew into a panic.  They don’t want anyone to see how they conduct business or whatever they call it.The video tape would have captured Tah Tah storming out of the meeting claiming duress when she is in fact running away from her constituency because she can’t answer questions about her  very poor record keeping.  Tah Tah’s madness will be the demise of the Cromwellians and it’s too late to turn back now.

The idea of video taping was absolutely out of the question vote wise and Trish looked like she was about to have a stroke…. so allowing council members to audio tape record the meetings passed.  Now to show you how absurd Cedric is, he was trying to stop Laura Tobey Miranda from tape recording the public meetings.  Anyone can do it . There’s no tribal law that says it can’t be done. If your tribal secretary is “coo coo” and cannot be relied upon to take the minutes….the last thing you want is for someone else to do it correctly.  It was so stupid…..but it served a purpose to collect more evidence.

Thank you Cedric, Trish, Mark Tilden, Tah Tah for confirming the failure to record and conduct business legally.   And the real Mashpee came to the meeting to see for themselves. Real Mashpee has had enough.

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Guess who fell off  the bar stool (backwards) at Dino’s ? Knocked themselves out for a minute. A very important tribal director !  Ask someone….oh never mind.  They were all wasted. Your tribal leaders whipping out the AMEX cards. We don’t know about Cedric Cromwell.   Honestly. He was observing the election revelry  with sunglasses on surrounded by his family and his one friend….Lou.  Lonely ain’t it bird?

The Genting rigged election is likely to come out this way…..

Yvonne Frye AVANT ( All of the Fryes will vote 2 or 3 times to keep getting paid as Council employees and besides  Kimmie Frye is in charge of the election…ballots in the trunk don’t you know….or “Hey need to vote a few more times? Nobody will know the difference cause we don’t allow any election observers.” Yvonne is such a mess she keeps reminding everyone she’s been on the Council over 20 years.  Too bad she only helps herself ! )

Cheryl Frye Cromwell ( When your sister is in charge and your peeps are voting 2 or 3 times why worry?  All your dirty little secrets aren’t secrets and all the phoney credentials and taking credit for federal programs can’t bring the respect you crave.  Worst, you can’t get that crick out of your neck from looking over your shoulder.)

Aaron Tobey ( Another delusional usurper who undermined the most essential tribal traditions.  Remember the “Tobey Elders” or the “Bomber Jacket Elders” he established to replace the true Elders, who disliked him.  He torpedoed our aqua farming opportunity owned by the late Mr. Kelly while screeching about Aboriginal Rights.  He gave away our Aboriginal Rights to hunt and fish to the state in the Crappy Compact…..that was a doozey.That was the first time the BIA said …who are these guys? in a scathing rebuke of our Compact. The guy almost started a full fledged riot.  Yes indeed he will replace Winnie Johnson who sucked up to Cedric so hard in the Mashpee Enterprise you had to wonder if she was on something. She’s so simple she was promising families monthly allotments from the casino we will never have….thanks to her buddies. And hiding her Mercedes 500 doesn’t mater either cause everyone knows shes hiding it.)

The fourth winner of this  election remains a mystery.  The corruption is so rampant you have to wonder if the outcome really matters.

On Tuesday Jonathan Polloni represented the Mashpee 9 before Federal District Court Judge Denise Casper. He made a salient point when he defended the complaint against the United States… essentially the Department of Interior home of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He pointed out that it wasn’t about who was elected to the Tribal Council during the chaotic 2009 election, but the fact that tribal law was broken to bring the Cromwell administration to power. And it’s been a wicked ride for 5 years.

Federal District Court Judge Denise Casper had some interesting questions for the US Government

Judge Casper presided over Whitey Bolger’s case.   She is pretty no nonsense.  She seemed intrigued with the way the BIA turned a blind eye to alleged elections fraud.

The fact is the Elders went to Washington on three different occasions to complain and ultimately beg for intervention. The bureaucrats there never pointed them in the right direction. It also seems to support the fact that in Indian Country, no one respects the BIA because they have never done a good job of protecting Native Americans from anything.  It has in fact done an excellent job of abdicating its responsibility to protect indigenous people from harm especially from their own abusive governments….that’s rampant in Indian Country.

The fact that months before the 2013 election the BIA received a stream of documents showing violations and the refusals of the tribal government to hear claims and see proof of unqualified members loaded on to the rolls. Elections fraud is a serious violation when perpetrated anywhere in the United States, tribal nation or not. But in the case of the Mashpee, the government used its standard excuse that “the BIA does not interfere with the affairs of sovereign tribal nations. “  That brought an interesting question from Judge Casper.

” So does the BIA ever intervene in questionable tribal elections?”  The government said, “Yes your honor, but it’s very complicated. “ Wrong answer.

Polloni also pointed out the fact that all internal legal avenues were exhausted, and at each step of the process, tribal law was violated.  A very unique dilemma for the Mashpee. The MWT tribal sovereignty is incomplete because we do not have land in trust. Which means  we have a tribal court without authority or enforcement powers and “the do nothing no matter what”  BIA  which means we have no redress.  No where for us to go  to get justice …accept Uncle Sam.

Of course the Cromwell administration and their band of lawyers have known this all along and have taken full advantage of our 5 years of limbo status.  This has resulted in the treadmill land in trust process and the spiraling debt that will be $92 m shortly. The tribal members have absolutely nothing and can do nothing to stop the abuse. Somebody should be paying attention to that little discrepancy, eh ?

Judge Casper said she would take the motion to dismiss under advisement.  Which means she may want to check some things out.  But it was not what the government wanted to hear or the tribal lawyer who sat in the corner of the courtroom listening intensely. He was the same tribal lawyer who makes big bucks and condescended to Nellie Hicks Ramos in tribal court 2 years ago on this very issue, requesting an investigation and the production of the voter sign in  sheets. They wanted the case dismissed too.  But apparently the government didn’t make a good case for that.   Judge Casper could still dismiss it. She could also order the investigation or go to trial.  Hopefully she does something that will end our long nightmare.

Apparently the decision was bad enough to make the tribal lawyer and his pr buddy bolt from the court room to give Cedric Cromwell the bad news. He had no comment in any of  the Wednesday news stories. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Also, when Jonathan Polloni tried to use the search mode of the BIA website Tuesday night …..It wouldn’t work.  Wow.