United States v. Estelle Goings, United States of America v. Carol Vitalis

Estelle Goings, Carol Vitalis, and Goings’s daughter worked in the payroll department within the Financial Accounting Office (FAO) of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Goings supervised the entire office, and Vitalis supervised Goings’s daughter. The women obtained multiple payroll advances and failed to repay them as required by tribal policy. A grand jury found probable cause to believe the women misapplied tribal funds and converted them to their own use, and thus returned an indictment charging them with four counts of theft from an Indian tribal organization in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1163 and…