Justin Jones: Navajo Nation, pay your bills!
Diné attorney, a US Marine, alleges rampant nonpayment by Diné government, leaders
GRANTS, N.M.
If the Navajo Nation had a credit score, it would be -0000, said Diné Attorney Justin Jones.
That’s poor credit. “It’s absurd. It’s absolutely disgusting,” said Jones of The Law Offices of Justin Jones in Farmington.
Jones, a U.S. Marines veteran who served in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, calls on the Navajo Nation government and its leaders to answer for what he says is a systemic and ongoing failure to pay Navajo-owned businesses, former employees, and contracted service providers. A bureaucratic vice of the Navajo Nation that “is about as common as the potholes in Window Rock,” Jones said in an interview with the Navajo Times.
To read the full article, please see the April 17, 2025, edition of the Navajo Times.
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