Trust Mismanagement

NYTs on Cobell Litigation

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From the NYTs:

February 1, 2008
Editorial

The Verdict: It’s Broken

The case of the mismanaged American Indian trust funds is Dickensian both in length — now 11 years before the courts — and inequity. On Wednesday, Judge James Robertson of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Interior Department had “unreasonably delayed” its accounting for billions of dollars owed to American Indian landholders and that the agency “cannot remedy the breach.”

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Robertson Rules on “Accounting”

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Today in the Cobell case, Judge Robertson issued his findings of fact and conclusions of law on the government’s “accounting.” The document is available here.

Here’s the story from Indianz.Com

Judge: Cobell historical accounting ‘impossible’
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Filed Under: Cobell

The federal judge handling the Cobell trust fund case has issued his
findings of fact and conclusions of law on the Bush administration’s
historical accounting.

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