The Week in Review
ending August 18
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President Bush raises funds for Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) August 15, 2001. Photo © AP. |
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Trust fund punishment part of latest flap
More than two years after the incident occurred,
the public finally got its hands on an internal
Department of Treasury report on the destruction of
162 boxes of trust fund records.
But anyone who expected the government to take
significant action against attorneys who were
involved in the cover-up was sorely disappointed.
Punishment was light for four of the six
lawyers who were aware of the destruction but
waited months to report it to a federal judge.
Whether the Department of Justice will discipline
its attorneys harsher remains to be seen, but
officials say they will act. The
Department of Interior, meanwhile, remains silent
on the issue.
Get the Story:
Light punishment
for destroyed trust fund records (8/15)
Justice plans
action for destroyed trust records (8/17)
McCaleb suspends land-into-trust regulations
For the third time this year, the Bush
administration has suspended a set of land-into-trust
regulations tribal leaders urged the Department of
Interior to accept.
But rather than amend them or take them as they are,
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb
is moving to withdraw the rules altogether.
In a Federal Register notice published this
week, he is asking for more comments on the
proposed withdrawal.
Should he scrap the rules, it could take up to
two years to come up with a new set.
Tribal leaders, especially the National Congress
of the American Indian, had worked closely with
the Clinton administration to develop the rules
that many non-Indians opposed.
Get the Story:
Land regulations
targeted for withdrawal (8/13)
Delayed
regulations cause disappointment (8/14)
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