(KAIR)--Additional charges are filed against three former leaders of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas.
The additional charges of criminal misconduct were filed Thursday by Kickapoo Tribal Special Prosecutor Thomas G. Lemon.
The former council leaders were previously charged with fraudulent handling of recordable instruments, tampering with records, and misuse of tribal funds.
The new charges against the three include alleged additional counts of tampering with records, inducement of improper payments of tribal burial funds, misuse of public money, and fraudulent handling of recordable instruments.
Six additional criminal complaints were filed against former Tribal Chairman Steve Cadue and former Tribal Council Secretary Adolph Cadue, Jr., while three additional criminal complaints were filed against former Tribal Council Treasurer Bobbi Darnell.
Kickapoo Tribal Chairman Lester Randall, in a press release, states that the additional charges come as a result of “an extensive review of past actions by these leaders” that “uncovered a number of questionable actions.”
The original complaints were filed in March, and alleged the former tribal officials took action to draw down money from the Tribe's federal burial fund, and then falsified resolutions showing the council's action was for a much greater amount. According to press release, those monetary amounts were then transferred to the Tribe's burial fund, held by the federal government on behalf of the Tribe, to the Tribe's bank account. It's alleged the funds were then used to subsidize payroll and other tribal expenses.
Each of the charges are punishable by six months imprisonment and banishment from the Kickapoo Reservation.
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