This resulted in a tax loss of over $1.6 million.” “For at least five years the defendants took more than $4.9 million of the tribe’s money and intentionally failed to declare it as income to the IRS. “The defendants used the tribe’s accounts as their personal piggy banks,” Kareem Carter, the special agent in charge of criminal investigation for the Internal Revenue Service, said in a statement following the guilty pleas. 30, when they each could receive up to five years on the conspiracy to embezzle count. John Crosby, 56, also pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return Ines Crosby, 76, pleaded guilty to not filing a tax return in 2010 and Lohse, 64, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return.

That all changed Thursday morning, when John Crosby, the former FBI agent and the tribe’s one-time economic development director his mother, Ines Crosby, the former tribal administrator and Leslie Lohse, Ines Crosby’s sister, entered guilty pleas in the case.Īll three pleaded guilty to conspiracy to embezzle from a tribal organization.

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