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Search results for "tribes" ...
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The Crown Topples: The Swift Rise and Brutal Fall of Maryland's Latin Kings
An inside look at what happened when a national gang infiltrated two suburban counties. Major findings: in 2007 and 2008, the brother of a brutal gang member started a new Latin Kings "tribe" in Maryland and Washington D.C. The Royal Lion Tribe grew to nearly 200 members and initiated a bloody rivalry with the local branch of MS=13. A group of federal agents took down the gang from the inside after a minor crime brought the new gang into the spotlight.
Tags: Gangs; Gang Violence; Maryland; Royal Lion Tribe; Latin Kings;
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Native Americans Tribues Shield Parents from Child Support
Many mothers in California, and around the country, can't get child support payments from Native American fathers or tribal casino employees. That's because tribes are sovereign nations and don't have to honor state or federal child support orders. Without the child support payments, many of the mothers survive on food stamps and welfare.
Tags: Native Americans; child support; welfare; tribes
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Death In The Desert
Exposing trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula -- a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. Crimes involved include, but are not limited to, extortion, torture, human and organ trafficking, and murder.
Tags: sinai; peninsula; human trafficking; africa; refugee; Bedouin; torture; extortion; organ trafficking
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Pay Day Lenders Skirt Law
The story revealed how a high end race car driver who is also a convicted felon is partnering with an Indian tribe to run a multi-million dollar payday loan business. By partnering with the tribe the lenders do not have to follow any state laws. The lender is currently under multiple investigations by attorneys general.
Tags: payday loan; Better Business Bureau; property tax records
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Death in the Desert
"This story exposes the trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula--a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. What CNN's Pleitgen found was not only trafficking and enslavement, but also organ trafficking."
Tags: African refugees; Sinai Peninsula; Bedouin tribes; human trafficking; enslavement; broadcast
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Bob Waterson stories
The Bee found that Bob Waterson, chairman of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, had engaged in personal and business dealings that raised ethical questions. For example, he bought a luxury vehicle at an apparent discount from a tribal official as he was opposing plans for a competing tribe's casino.
Tags: Corruption; chairman; Fresno County Board of Supervisors
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The Terrorism Trade-Off
"The Seattle P-I chronicled how the Bush Administration is paying for its domestic War on Terror by gutting the FBI's traditional crime-fighting capabilities."
Tags: FBI; terrorism; Bush; methamphetamine; meth; Native Americans; tribes; criminals; rogue cops; civil rights;
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Fast Forturne, Big Spending
The Seminole Tribe of Florida has a "$1 billion-a-year gambling empire" and is one of the wealthiest tribes in America. The Sun-Sentinel looks at how tribal leaders "used millions of the tribes money for their personal benefit with virtually no outside scrutiny."
Tags: Native Americans; Seminole; tribe; Florida; gambling; casino; personal wealth; tribe leaders
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Problems in Paradise
"A murder near the famed waterfalls of Havasu Canyon, Ariz., reveals the social ills of a tribe that needs help."
Tags: murder; Havasupai tribe; tribal hostility; Bureau of Indian Affairs; meth trade;
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Tribes pull in profits, grants
While Oklahoma Indian tribes earn more money than ever from gaming and other businesses, they continue to collect federal grant funds for housing, medical care, education and other needs at an increasing rate, federal records show. It turns out that there is no formula or relationship between a tribe’s ability to support itself and the amount the federal government decides to give it. Some of these grants, for housing and education, are required by treaties between tribes and the U.S. government, but many are not.
Tags: Indian tribes; gaming; business; FAADS; Federal Award Assistance Data System; Oklahoma; federal funding; grants