A Rogue is a Rogue is a Rogue...

Sault Ste. Marie, Mi...Allard Teeple was hired without a board vote, to represent the Sault Tribe in its Greektown dealings.

There are three things wrong with this...

One, to enter into a contract to represent a tribe requires a positive majority of the board of directors ( 7 of its 13 members. ) After discussing the hiring, the board then consented to Chairman McCoy hiring him. Hiring like this violates the open meetings act, the parlimentary meeting rules, and the tribe's constitution.

Two, it gets more serious when you consider the following...

...Mr. Teeple was hired before he gained suitability as a vendor through the Michigan Gaming Control Board ( a requirement when working for a casino )
...This will mean an Acknowlegement of Violation fine of $ 200,000.00, or more.
...It might put the Sault Tribe's Greektown Gaming licensing in jeopardy.

Three, Mr. Teeple worked previously for the tribe, reporting to Bernard Bouchour. In September of 2000 he threatened to sabotage the licensing process for Greektown, if he didn't get a raise...30 % plus a $ 100,000.00 bonus. To placate him, Bouschour proposed to the board to pay off Mr. Teeple his annual salary x two years ( 2 x $ 100,000.00 = $ 200,000.00 ) To board members, it was akin to blackmail.

Though the five year severance prohibition to rehire Mr. Teeple has elapsed, to hire him again requires a vote of the Board ( a positive majority because it undoes somethng the board previously enacted )

Wow, talk about circumventing the law...

Or, about incompetence...$ 200,000.00 or more, in a fine...when the working poor are getting scalped.

Was director Hoffman put up to proposing this, or was it his own idea...

So much for unholding the constitution or any of that oath of office pagentry...

Obviously a rogue is a rogue is a rogue...

Thank you, Charles Forgrave