The embattled leader of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut remains in office after telling council members he wouldn't resign, The New London Day reports.

Chairman Michael Thomas could have been expelled at a council meeting yesterday. But fellow leaders declined to take a vote on his status, leaving the whole issue "in limbo," a tribal adviser said.

”They can't just kind of sit back and do nothing,” the adviser told the Day. “As I understand it, they're kind of in limbo - they don't know what to do. You would think they've either got to expel him or let him survive.”

Thomas remains on administrative leave after sending a letter to tribal members that disclosed the tribe's "dire financial" condition.

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Mashantucket tribal council postpones vote to expel Thomas (The New London Day 9/11)

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