It's in the Court's Records / Sault Tribe vs. Bernard Bouchour

Sault Ste. Marie, Mi...A careful review of Mr. Bernard Bouschor's instructions to the tribe's law firm in 2004, Miller-Canfield...reveals that he instructed them to confirm for him that he could fire the tribe's key employees and pay off their employment contracts. Mr. Horton, the tribe's lead attorney in the civil trial, Sault Tribe vs. Bernard Bouschor, of Giamarco, Mullins, and Horton, made specific note of that fact before the jury...that former Chairman Bernard Bouschor didn't ask whether or not he could fire the key employees and pay them off, he instructed Miller-Canfield to confirm for him that he could.

This is important to note because in 2004 Mr. Bouschor was used to giving these same instructions to the tribe's legal department. Whenever he wanted something of the tribe's board of directors, he was able through using this tactic to browbeat the board of directors into cooperation and he was able subsequently to keep the board and the tribal membership under his thumb. The big complaint of that time period was how the board rubberstamped everything that Mr. Bouschor wanted. This was also the reason why it was important to rid the Sault Tribe of Mr. Bouschor and his close associates in the legal department (most of whom had worked with him for twenty years or more), because they confirmed for him anything he instructed them to in order to keep their employee contracts and their high paying jobs.

The court records now reflect that Mr. Bernard Bouschor had this same kind of a relationship with the tribe's law firm in 2004, Miller-Canfield. He instructed them to confirm for him that he could fire the key employees and payoff their employment contracts, and he asked them to prepare whatever paperwork was necessary to complete that task, as well as whatever paperwork was necessary to rehire them if he won the election and to keep them on for a period of up to two years, with the option of amending the provision to enable him to keep them even longer.

Mr. Horton also substantiated for the court that the former chairman's relationship with Miller-Canfield was close as it was with the tribe's legal department, when he revealed to it that Miller-Canfield had rewarded Mr. Bernard Bouschor with $1,000.00 in twenty and fifty dollar bills for sending the $28,000.00 of tribal work their way, purportedly to be used in his ongoing reelection campaign...

...oops, does that sound like a kickback to you?

Thank you, Charles Forgave