Other than Annawon, do you know any of those people in the picture? Neither do we.
This is why no one takes us seriously
Certifiably stupid
Just give up the license and stop humiliating us.
The Tribe has had 0 success with the “Itty Bitty Taunton Casino.” And now Cedric revealed that the second compact has the Tribal casino located at the Taunton Galleria Mall. There’s no purchase agreement with the Galleria owners. It’s no where near likely to happen either.
So let’s review. Cedric’s million dollar lawyers go in and negotiate another “Crappy Compact” and lie about the actual casino location. It’s probably because the land they actually have is only about 40-50 acres and could not accommodate a $500 m resort casino…so they substituted the Galleria. The Galleria folks were clueless. A few years ago the asking price was around $120m. Great….just what we need more debt to Genting.
Well you can imagine what the Gaming Commission thinks. The dishonesty is too much. The stupidity is overwhelming…but for competitors it’s a giddy moment. This latest screw up only confirms that Cedric just can’t pull this off let alone resolve the federal problems. This is yet another episode adding more serious delay….and making the case to give the license away.
No wonder Cedric was stumbling and mumbling through Brooke’s talking points at the hearing. Shovel ready….shovel ready…digging our grave.
Head ’em up move ’em out
Get on the bus!!!! Cedric had Joanne start with the Elders…the real ones. There wasn’t much interest there. So they opened the door to everyone….tribal members, staff and three legged dogs. Who knows what will turn up in the bull rake ! Another free bus ride to sit on the front row to look pitiful and beg for a gaming license from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission for the worst location in the state….all courtesy of your chairman (ahem) who needs a little help. Hadn’t he had enough?
- $47 million worth of help for the “Crappy Compact” (that is irrelevant without LIT) and over billing with 0 benefit to us
- Now we have ” Crappy Compact II” which is just as bad as the last one
- An incomplete LIT application that experts say is at least 6 years away….
- Lawsuits guaranteed because the Supreme Court says so…
So let’s see…The state is going to hold up a gaming license in the most lucrative area in the state for Cedric and Genting. Oh please. And all this so called vetting….it’s called ” BIA have mercy on us.” But after you spend $47 million on lawyers why ask the BIA for help now?
This is what we get for $47 million
Right. We’re the Damned Fools Tribe.
Keep those monthly $30 food cards coming….
Housing Director Quits…Council calls Emergency Meeting today
Oh boy. They said old Ronnie wouldn’t last….and they were right. He resigned as Housing Director and there’s an Emergency Council Meeting going on right now. Word is certain Council members want to get rid of “Navajo Sue” the tribal administrator. Drula just ain’t working out people. Watch for Navajo Joe to disappear next. The DOJ ain’t no joke.
Also Stephanie Toby Rodrick is either giving notice or was given notice by ICWA. It was reportedly 30 days. Looks like drug counseling is more to her liking than the poorly run Indian Child Welfare Act Program.
As the money from Genting dries up, so do the jobs. You won’t even get those pathetic $30 monthly food cards anymore.
Cedric and his Fryebal Council treat you birds like royalty don’t they?
Illusions of a Recount by Cedric Cromwell
No sign in sheets. Navajo Joe’s ballots via Dino’s parking lot and Cedric’s acting like this is real?
Come on boy !!!
According to your incredible posts days before the election on the Brian’s tribal Facebook page you’re a preacher.
Time to pray for a way outta this brother.
The case of the roaming ballot box
Diluted Mashpee votes
It’s so damned stupid, it’s funny but you actually feel sorry for Kimmie Frye in the end. Anyhow, when the election was over, the ballot box was put in the trunk of her car. Right. Well you know where that car was going. Straight to Dino’s where Kimmie and crew proceeded to get good and drunk….somebody wet themselves in the bar….somebody vomited according to the bartenders. But we know that all made it home and showed up to work late Monday. Kimmie did a good job of hiding from Richard Oakley Monday who filed the first wave of challenges to Navajo Joe’s election ” to preserve and protect his burgeoning pay check.”
The second day she couldn’t duck Oakley who showed up with the paperwork for the recount and handed it right to her. She groaned. Navajo Joe turned and went in another direction and Harding kept talking about this meeting he had to go to. Why’s he still hanging around? You know why.
Well, Kimmie was just outdone. She really thought she was all dignified during the election. Her family was in there working the election while Navajo Joe sat in the audience laughing and grinning. He was doing his “I’m so superior” smirk. It was like he knew the outcome. Imagine. Total confidence.
Kimmie and Valerie M transferred the (unsecured) ballot box from her car to the Housing van along with the voting booths. They returned the booths to the town.
Where’s the ballot box and the voter sign in sheets? Who the hell knows? Again people. Those troublesome sign in sheets with all our signatures on it. A record of who voted. Legal and illegal voters. The number of voters would also be revealed. You would know if your vote has been diluted by illegal voters who are also on there as Oakley alleges. You could probably get a pretty good idea about voter fraud which is a very serious federal offense.
Okay, so Oakley gets his recount tomorrow. But he won’t be allowed to see the sign in sheets. So what’s the point?
Have the 2013 sign in sheets disappeared too?
A recount is worthless without the sign in sheets. More evidence indeed. So much to hide from so many eyes.
US Justice Department moves forward on Mashpee 9 case
Cedric goes down, Genting walks, and we are devastated
The Department of Justice contacted Mashpee 9 attorney Jonathan Polloni Friday, February 22 to tell him the case was moving forward. The Mashpee 9 essentially said that the 2009 election was fraudulent and they wanted the federal government to investigate it and to monitor the 2013 election because they feared the same fraud would occur again. Well clearly DOJ nor the Department of Interior formally monitored the election. But Polloni wanted to send up a flare. It was a flare of Titanic proportions. Everything that was done, every nasty letter from Navajo Joe, every reasonable request denied, every election committee resignation and illegal vote was forwarded to DC and Nashville. Every reappointment of the sister-in-law as chair of the elections committee, every false and irresponsible move of the ballot box after the election….was sent to the authorities so no one could pretend they didn’t know what was going on. All evidence of a lot of shady stuff that no one could stop.
We won’t even get into the humiliation of Robbie Hendricks. The attempted cover up of the fiances has begun. 15 accounts. Marge is the treasurer. She made that clear. She also knows a forensic audit will reveal all misdeeds.
Here’s what relentless looks like. Genting and their man Cedric Cromwell continue to take advantage of a tribe that had no internal control of their out of control government. No land in trust, no legitimate tribal court with enforcement powers, just a panel of scared uniformed overpaid outsiders controlled by a bunch of lawyers that keep gouging the Greeters of the Pilgrims. This is what happens to tribes when the outsiders take over and are not accountable to the core members.
It’s not like DOJ is a big fan of Genting, the Tribes owners. Genting is under investigation all over the US for corruption. Cedric the Overseer, signs the contracts. Harding was dipping in Housing and other federal appropriations made by the Council he sat on. You better believe the Feds have already drawn a bead on Harding and want to know where the $47 million went. Well it went to a lot of overpaid lawyers. It’s called over billing. Richard Oakley said if he were elected chairman he would investigate and demand a refund of the millions in overcharges for blatantly bad legal work. Cedric allowed it. He has no choice. Hundreds of thousands dollars in legal fees charged for wire transfers and for work on the USDA loan on the so called “government center.” Totally unheard of. But it’s a glaring abuse laid out for Federal investigators to see.
The Chinese gaming giant is famous for hiding behind vulnerable tribes and using them to gain gambling footholds and big profits. But Genting is not absorbing little tribes like it used to. That’s because of their horrible reputation. But they own the Mashpee thank you Cedric Cromwell and Mark Harding. Harding’s brought a lot of unwanted scrutiny with his consistent wrongdoing. He became a huge liability.
For those who say Harding’s defeat was ” proof that the election was fair ” don’t understand how entities like Genting work. They do whatever it takes, and believe me these guys are a cheap date.
The only people Genting cared about was Cedric and Marie Stone. Stone was the red flag. Even she didn’t believe she was re-elected, neither did anyone else. Marie was reaching out desperately to everyone for help with her campaign and got a cold response. Marie is very very smart….she is also very volatile and knows a lot of very damning information. To push her off the reservation would be fatal. When Marie began to worry about her poor record keeping of the minutes that lapsed for over 6 months at one point, Cedric told her ” Don’t worry about that.” Well she did and was looking like a pack mule bringing minutes in to be approved 10 weeks at a time. It was crazy. And it made the other Council members very uncomfortable because it was impossible to do. Genting couldn’t let Marie lose. She would go off to brood and eventually spill the chowder. You can believe the Feds will ask for all the minutes. No audio taped minutes ? Not good. No record of government action. Let the lawyers explain that.
Cedric the Overseer….well he’s their boy. Anyone who really thought that they would be an acceptable replacement is dreaming or on hallucinogens. Genting would do anything they needed to do to keep Cedric in place. To hell with Aaron and Mark who is serious ” baggage”.
Now the the rest of the election debacle is unraveling ….lending more credence to our sad state of affairs.
The most powerful man on the Council
It’s Robbie Hendricks. Being treated like a third grader by people and staff who have no authority to do so.
Non Negotiable
If Cedric Cromwell was elected chairman, isn’t Robbie Hendricks the new treasurer? Noooooooooooo according to Cedric, Mark Harding needs to hang around and TRANSITION for 90 days. So we have two treasurers. It’s a constitutional violation. The transfer of power is plain and laid out in the Constitution. There’s no transition.
They don’t want Hendricks to bring his technical guy, and outside auditors to look into that Tribal Gaming Commission or $47 million. They don’t want him ordering Drula (Navajo Sue) to give him the keys and signature cards, so he can be a real treasurer.
Hendricks doesn’t even have an email address. But if Hendricks allows this to go any further, he’s failed to do his job. Allowing Cedric and Harding to compromise you is pretty bad. The tribal family should take note of this outrage against him. Does nothing matter? Is Genting on the tribal roll?
Are we all that pimped out ?
It’s going to take 90 days to cover up all the mystery money that is everywhere. This is the beginning of the stash the cash game, and they aren’t even trying to disguise the money shuffle.
Funny when Harding came in he assumed his post the night of the election as he ran around changing locks and shutting down genealogy to cover up their dirty deeds.
Now he’s hanging on to try to hide years of bad business.
My sister-in-law delivered ! It’s the Navajo Way!
So Genting is tough. Navajo Joe was laughing at us as he walked the perimeter. A thousand Mashpee Wampanoag could show up and vote for Tony Moniz and it wouldn’t count. To say that Cedric Cromwell received over 400 votes from the indigenous Mashpee Wampanoag is absurd. To say that a member of the 1001 received 23 votes sends a message alright Mr Dine. The federal court is already looking at the 2009 disaster and now Kimmie and Navajo Joe handed them more ammunition.
Can you identify this man? They couldn't.
They allowed no independent observers to watch the ballot box being removed and actually counted. What happened after the ballots were delivered to be counted is any ones guess, because everyone….everyone was thrown out of the building. No independent members were there to observe the counting.
What takes 5 minutes to tabulate took 2 hours. Everyone knew they were at it again. That was Navajo Joe’s orders., Only Kimmie, her kids, Yvonne Tobey and a few people who know nothing about elections were marching around and asking prominent Mashpee for ID. It was so surreal. For the second time, a stolen election happened before our eyes.
