Grand Jury Indicts Pair In Fraud Of Warm Springs Tribe

A federal grand jury has returned a six count indictment against two men, charging them with fraud against the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.  65-year-old Roderick Ariwite, a resident of Idaho’s Fort Hall Reservation and CEO of Warm Springs Ventures, and 48-year-old Warm Springs Reservation resident Thomas Adams, who was manager of Warm Springs Construction Enterprise, are charged with conspiring to misappropriate $93,700 of tribal funds.  Ariwite is charged in a separate indictment with interstate transportation of a $23,000 check obtained fraudulently from a board member of a tribal business entity.  The charges involve the pair creating their own construction company in October 2017 and on tribal time engaging in work projects for that company, and hiring a consulting company Ariwite operated for two projects that did not benefit the tribe.

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