The case against Mel Begay went to the jury late Wednesday with special prosecutors for the tribe arguing that Begay was guilty of fraud when he gave his children some 60 checks totaling $33,000 from the tribal discretionary fund.
Read MoreFifty years ago, the Navajo Forest Products Industries was considered the tribe’s most successful enterprise.
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Back in May, shortly after he took office, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said he wasn’t going to make any hasty decisions when it came to the appointment of his director for economic development.
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The decision by Mel R. Begay to give more then $33,000 to his children from the tribal financial discretionary fund may have been a violation of tribal ethics laws but was it a crime?
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For decades, Navajo tribal leaders have been trying to learn the secret of bringing economic development to the job-scarce Navajo Reservation.
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