United States v. Richard A. Tonry

A convicted lawyer-defendant in this bribery case has sold a bill of goods to my colleagues of the majority which I refuse to buy.

That the defendant Tonry paid a bribe of $25,000 to Larry Burgess to induce him to sign a contract which gave Tonry and his partners the right to establish and manage the tribe’s bingo establishment on its reservation was amply shown. That he and Burgess later traveled to Washington from New Orleans to facilitate the approval of the contract by the Bureau of Indian Affairs is also plain. That Burgess was acting in a fiduciary capacity for the Indian tribe is not in…