Susan has a greatly detailed story on IETAN CONSULTING, a lobbying firm run by Holly Cook Macarro, the wife of Pechanga Chairman Mark Macarro, to which that tribe pays $250,000 per year. That led to Macarro being the subject of a recall attempt.
Tribal attorney Howard Dickstein is facing accusations eerily similar to those which dogged Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The complaint the Rumsey Indian Rancheria filed against Dickstein in 2007 in the U.S. Superior Court in Yolo County, California can be found here:
http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2011/06/28/rumsey-indian-rancheria-vs-howard-dickstein-57-pages-complaint-with-14-causes-of-action-for-greed-betrayal-against-spouse-of-bog-member-jeannine–11389017/
Of particular note is that a year after the case was filed, Rumsey was picked up Ietan Consulting, whose lobbyists gaslit Abramoff and staged the Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearings where the Republican super-lobbyist was set up for criminal indictment on trumped up charges. Ietan’s lobbyists and its partners coached dissidents among Abramoff’s casino-rich clients to lodge false allegations against Abramoff in the media and before Congress.
Once Abramoff was removed from power, Ietan and its partners immediately commenced representation of his casino-rich clients and cashed in. The allegations could easily have been refuted, but the accusers were banking on the fact that paperwork would be difficult to secure, ensuring that their false narrative prevailed.
Ietan’s representation of the Rumsey in 2008 is documented here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?id=D000037284&year=2008
The complaint against Dickstein trots out the tired narrative that this tribal attorney exploited the poor hapless Indians, who are always cast as victims in Ietan’s manufactured scandals. “The lawsuit is about greed and betrayal,” the complaint alleges, taking its cue from McCain’s Final Report on Abramoff’s tribal lobbying. “The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians…has discovered that its long-time (and now former) legal counsel and financial advisor breached their trust obligations and violated duties of the most basic and indeed, sacred, kind.”
The discoveries were made “after terminating” the attorney at which time the tribe retained Kroll & Associates to review his work. Upon further review, the complaint alleges that Dickestein “placed his own interests and the interests of others ahead of the tribe’s in order to enrich (himself) at the tribe’s expense.”
According to the complaint, Dickstein allegedly betrayed the tribe’s trust by involving the financially unsophisticated Rumsey in “complicated investments and transactions in which the business arrangements were more favorable to others than the tribe and which were allegedly fraught with self-dealing and conflicts of interests (he) failed to disclose.”
Dickstein also was alleged to have used tribal assets for personal purposes without having sought permission or informed the Tribal Council the full extent of his compensation.
In a similar vein, during the Abramoff scandal, Ietan-backed dissidents accused the lobbyist and his partner, Michael Scanlon, of having hidden their financial arrangements from tribal leaders who were fully knowledgeable and agreeable to them.
Read the full story at Susan Bradford’s site
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Susan Bradford: Tribal Gaming Establishment Turns on Ietan’s Larry Rosenthal
Investigative reporter, and friend of Original Pechanga's Blog, Susan Bradford has the story on issues with IETAN, a lobbying firm of which Pechanga chairman mark macarro's wife Holly Macarro is a principal. Be sure to check out Susan's book on Jack Abramoff titled LYNCHED: The Shocking Story of How the Political Establishment Manufactured a Scandal to Have Republican Super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff Removed from Power
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A little over a decade ago, the tribal gaming establishment turned on Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff by selling a false narrative to the American people that he was corrupt since he committed the cardinal sin of blocking the proliferation of tribal casinos in a multi-billion dollar market. Abramoff was retained by his tribal clients to engage in lawful lobbying activity in order to protect their market share and was rewarded handsomely for it.
Fast forward ahead a decade and the corrupt tribal gaming establishment is now turning its sabers on Larry Rosenthal of Ietan Consulting. There are many reasons to criticize Rosenthal, including his role (along with that of his chief legislative ally, Congressman Dale Kildee) in helping fictitious Indian flood tribal membership rolls and seize control of tribal governments, their businesses, and the mineral resources on their lands. He also schemed with other lobbyists, including Scott Reed, to set up Abramoff for criminal indictment on trumped up charges so that he and his allies could seize his rival’s business interests in Indian Country
Recently, reports smearing Ietan Consulting were released at two separate National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) conferences. Inside sources said that the reports were dropped on the door steps of the hotel rooms of participants in the interests of setting up Rosenthal for a fall by comparing him to Abramoff, while turning a blind eye to the pervasive fraud that is transpiring within Indian Country. It is worth repeating that the corrupt tribal gaming establishment devours its own and throws wayward professionals to the wolves.
READ MORE FROM Investigative Reporter Susan Bradford here.
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A little over a decade ago, the tribal gaming establishment turned on Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff by selling a false narrative to the American people that he was corrupt since he committed the cardinal sin of blocking the proliferation of tribal casinos in a multi-billion dollar market. Abramoff was retained by his tribal clients to engage in lawful lobbying activity in order to protect their market share and was rewarded handsomely for it.
Fast forward ahead a decade and the corrupt tribal gaming establishment is now turning its sabers on Larry Rosenthal of Ietan Consulting. There are many reasons to criticize Rosenthal, including his role (along with that of his chief legislative ally, Congressman Dale Kildee) in helping fictitious Indian flood tribal membership rolls and seize control of tribal governments, their businesses, and the mineral resources on their lands. He also schemed with other lobbyists, including Scott Reed, to set up Abramoff for criminal indictment on trumped up charges so that he and his allies could seize his rival’s business interests in Indian Country
Recently, reports smearing Ietan Consulting were released at two separate National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) conferences. Inside sources said that the reports were dropped on the door steps of the hotel rooms of participants in the interests of setting up Rosenthal for a fall by comparing him to Abramoff, while turning a blind eye to the pervasive fraud that is transpiring within Indian Country. It is worth repeating that the corrupt tribal gaming establishment devours its own and throws wayward professionals to the wolves.
READ MORE FROM Investigative Reporter Susan Bradford here.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
IETAN CONSULTING: Anatomy of a Lobbying Firm, Working to Keep the Small Tribes From Enjoying the Benefits of Gaming
MOVING this post forward, since the Senate seems so interested today. Thanks for visiting.
Recently at an NCAI (National Conference of American Indians) meeting, a handout worked its way around the meeting. This handout details the incestuous nature of a lobbying group IETAN CONSULTING and allies in the Obama Administration and Congress. This is particularly insightful in light of Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein's recent work to keep tribes from gaining casinos as their land is placed into trust.
We've posted on trust land issues before, concerning Mark Macarro.
While you would hope and think that Native American lobbyists would be working for the good of all Native people, sadly this isn't the case. As the document will show, IETAN has been working to keep smaller tribes from enjoying the benefits of gaming. Isn't that reprehensible?
We've posted numerous times of the civil rights violations of some of IETAN's clients, including the incredibly rich tribe, The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and other tribes like the Picayune Rancheria and the Redding Rancheria. Comically, they also have clients that Open Secrets lists as HUMAN RIGHTS. How can they give an effort to protect one tribe's human rights, while working for other principal clients that have destroyed the civil and human rights of their people?
Here's the multi-page document on IETAN CONSUTULTING:
Ietan Story: Tribal Lobbyist Firm
Now, this document paints with a broad brush and throws Jack Abrahamoff's name about. We do know there is a connection between former IETAN team member and Abrahamoff, but we'd take that with a grain of salt. We will have more on IETAN, Holly Cook Macarro and AKIN GUMP.
Read more about the brutally corrupt treatment of Indian People at Pechanga, Picayune and Redding.
Recently at an NCAI (National Conference of American Indians) meeting, a handout worked its way around the meeting. This handout details the incestuous nature of a lobbying group IETAN CONSULTING and allies in the Obama Administration and Congress. This is particularly insightful in light of Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein's recent work to keep tribes from gaining casinos as their land is placed into trust.
We've posted on trust land issues before, concerning Mark Macarro.
While you would hope and think that Native American lobbyists would be working for the good of all Native people, sadly this isn't the case. As the document will show, IETAN has been working to keep smaller tribes from enjoying the benefits of gaming. Isn't that reprehensible?
We've posted numerous times of the civil rights violations of some of IETAN's clients, including the incredibly rich tribe, The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and other tribes like the Picayune Rancheria and the Redding Rancheria. Comically, they also have clients that Open Secrets lists as HUMAN RIGHTS. How can they give an effort to protect one tribe's human rights, while working for other principal clients that have destroyed the civil and human rights of their people?
Here's the multi-page document on IETAN CONSUTULTING:
Ietan Story: Tribal Lobbyist Firm
Now, this document paints with a broad brush and throws Jack Abrahamoff's name about. We do know there is a connection between former IETAN team member and Abrahamoff, but we'd take that with a grain of salt. We will have more on IETAN, Holly Cook Macarro and AKIN GUMP.
Read more about the brutally corrupt treatment of Indian People at Pechanga, Picayune and Redding.
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