For nearly seven years, TERO fee checks meant for the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general fund took a detour through a personal bank account in Porcupine, South Dakota. Buffy Redfish was sentenced on June 29 to six and a half years. The window she sat behind is the story.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba pleaded guilty on July 6 to taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents posing as hotel developers. The money came in five neat checks labeled as campaign contributions. That label was the machine.
Dodge County Sheriff Dustin Weitzel spent four years quietly moving money out of the Fraternal Order of Police account he was supposed to guard. He almost paid it all back. Almost is the story.
Kypros Perikleous spent thirty-seven years inside the City of Toronto's transportation department. On Friday he pleaded guilty to washing money for an offshore gambling network allegedly run by a fugitive. The neighbors are still trying to square the two men.
Adebanjo Popoola inspected the buildings. He also owned the companies pretending to fix them. For seventeen months, the certification he signed at the end of the job was the last lock on the door, and he had the key.
KP George ran Fort Bend County while a jury was deciding whether he had washed his own campaign money through his own checking account. On June 16, they decided.