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Tribal Counsel. (cover story)
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- Author(s): Crowley, Michael
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New Republic. 6/20/2005, Vol. 232 Issue 23, p24-30. 3p.
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Discusses the role of Republican lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and his partner, Michael Scanlon, in the Coushatta Grand Casino scandal. The extent of Indian gaming in the United States; Efforts to regulate the industry in the hope that it might reduce tribal poverty; Pressure on the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to approve plans for casinos; Financial aspects of Abramoff's deals with casino-gaming tribes; How Indian casino money was used to corrupt politics and the tribes themselves, with the example of the Louisiana Coushatta Indian tribe.
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