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NORTON CHARGED WITH STEALING FROM INDIANS;
INTERIOR SEC'Y DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS A CRIME Justice Dept. Defends Her Against "Indian-lover" Judge Fort Laramie, NEB - (GNS) - Federal Judge Roy Bean charged Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton with stealing billions of dollars from Native American tribes yesterday. Norton and the U.S. Justice Dept. disputed the charge. "We gave them blankets," Norton declared. "For many years, stealing from Indians was not a crime. It was heroic," Norton's attorney J. Bennett Wayne insisted. Bean said Norton had been ordered to account for all the money missing from trust funds set aside for Native Americans and managed by the Federal Government. "Instead of doing her job, she stalled and dilly-dallied," he said. Dilly-dallying in the face of a Court order is a Class II felony, he explained. "He's just an Indian-lover," Wayne said. Norton is not the first Interior Secretary to be charged with this kind of offense. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, "a Democrat who should have known better," said Bean, also failed to figure out what's owed and turn it over. Native Americans said they would like to have the money soon, as the impending nuclear war with Iraq could make growing corn very difficult. |
