The lawsuit also claims the pair were “skimming more than $1.1m of cash receipts from the Smoke Shop operated by Berry Creek before depositing the remainder of the funds into the tribe’s bank account. Listed in the suit are alleged expenses including $4,818.50 on WWE WrestleMania tickets, $4,174.30 on UFC tickets, and $1,730 on Sacramento Kings basketball tickets. If the claims are true, it would seem Brown and Howard also had a penchant for contact sports. One of the expenses the tribe alleges as improper includes $16,339.81 spent at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in June 2014, with over $1,000 spent on tickets for an Elton John concert that same month. Elton John, Bellagio, NBA, UFC, WWE.Īccording to The Sacramento Bee, the lawsuit said: “This complaint could devote countless paragraphs to detailing all of the other fraudulent charges”. The alleged scheme ran from 2011 through 2016. The suit claims the two “entered into a discreet personal relationship and used their resultant joint power to supervise both the finances and business affairs of the Tribe to carry out a scheme centered around misappropriating tribal assets on a grand scale.” The complaint, filed on October 22, alleges former chief financial officer Deborah Howard and ex-tribal administrator Jesse Brown embezzled over $1m in a scheme involving a “secret credit card.” The suit also claims that the two laundered money from the tribal smoke shop to pay for trips to Las Vegas and Disneyland, including flights, concert tickets, and limousine rentals.Ī scheme centered around misappropriating tribal assets on a grand scale” The Sacramento Bee reported that the Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians – owners of Gold Country Casino Resort in Oroville – said that while actual losses are over $2.9m, it is also seeking more than $26m in punitive damages and over $8.8m in Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization damages.
Tribal owners of a California casino have filed a fraud and money laundering lawsuit in Sacramento federal court, claiming that two of its former senior employees skimmed over $1m for expenses and personal trips.
0 kommentar(er)
