The previous president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota will spend 22 months in jail for embezzling funds. Julian Bear Runner was convicted of wire fraud, larceny, and theft from an Indian tribal group.

The 39-year-old can be topic to supervised launch for 3 years and must pay $82,484 in restitution to the tribe and $800 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

confronted as much as 20 years in federal jail and a nice of as much as $250,000

The case took a very long time to come back to an in depth, as a federal grand jury indicted him again in September 2022. Bear Runner was lastly discovered responsible after a three-day trial in April 2024. He confronted as much as 20 years in federal jail and a nice of as much as $250,000.

Bear Runner embezzled the cash between January 2019 and January 2020 by claiming fraudulent journey bills. He submitted requests for official enterprise journey for out-of-state journeys to New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Montana, and New Mexico that he by no means really went on.

The previous tribal president obtained over $80,000 prematurely journey funds and used a on line casino to money the checks, playing with a lot of the cash and utilizing it to cowl the prices of lodge rooms.