Legal Opinion
United States v. Newell
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 11, 2011No. 19-1300PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
This case stems from extensive financial mismanagement at the Passamaquoddy Tribe Indian Township Reservation (the “Tribe”) in Down East Maine. Defendants Robert Newell, the former governor of the Tribe, and James Parisi, Jr., the Tribe’s former finance director, were convicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States under 18 U.S.C. § 371, as well as violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 287, 666 and 669, involving the misuse of federal grant and tribal monies. On appeal, Newell and Parisi raise a host of issues related to the federal court’s jurisdiction over “internal…
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