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The Week in Review
ending August 18
President Bush raises funds for Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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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