Sault Ste. Marie, Mi...Chairman Joe McCoy has picked up director Bouschor's renewed call for self-sufficiency funds. After thirty years of listening to Bouschor talk about self-sufficiency funds, to date the only ones to have them are him and his seven key employees.
Who made a fortune off Greektown: director Bouschor and his cronies. The tribe paid him $17,000.00 a week to go down and spend Friday afternoon drinking coffee in a nearby office. His seven key employees cried and lied on the witness stand and won the sympathies of seven white jurors and were allowed to keep their illegal payouts.
Whatever chance the tribe had of having self-sufficiency funds were lost along with Greektown. Chairman McCoy and company had two years to put together a bankruptcy exit plan to save the casino and it failed to do so. Fifty million dollars were paid to bankruptcy lawyers and the tribe did little more about it than to whine. Now it faces hundreds of millions of dollars in Greektown related lawsuits and millions of dollars in still additional lawyer fees.
Self-suffiency funds? What a joke these people are? Pie in the sky daydreamers. Are tribal citizens still going to buy into their baloney? What they need to do is to pay off the $90,000,000 at 12% owed to the local bank. They need to reimburse the depleted elders fund. They need to quit borrowing secretly and using the elder's fund as collateral without consulting the elders. They need to quit lying about accrued savings and talk to you about how they used borrowed money to balance the tribal budget...and how in reality there are no accrued savings.
They need to stop paying off their old political allies ($18,000 to Paquin for backlogged sick and vacation time after he spent $231,000 of your money for his own personal purposes and $300,000 in legal fees to Bouschor and his cronies after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that he didn't have the authority to make the payouts and that the seven key employees had signed a severance agreement and quit their jobs...disqualifying themselves for a payout).
Self-sufficiency funds? Untimely and crazy rhetoric by a bunch of misleading politicians. Nothing more than empty and false promises by politicians willing to say anything, promise anything...to stay in power. The time will come to rebuild the self-sufficiency funds. But it's not now. People are hurting...when the time comes that there truly are accrued savings...use them to restore the services and programs and employment opportunities taken so ruthlessly away from them.
Thank you, Charles Forgrave
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