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Ex-Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leader ordered to pay nearly $210K in bribery case
1 month ago | By Boston Herald
The former chairman of Massachusetts' Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, sentenced to prison for accepting exercise equipment, a luxury hotel stay and other bribes from an architectural firm working with the tribe on a casino, has to pay back nearly $210,000, a judge ordered.
Cedric Cromwell, former chair of the Cape Cod-based tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, was sentenced to three years in prison in Boston in November. David DeQuattro, the owner of the Rhode Island architecture and design firm, was sentenced to a year of probation under home confinement.
Cromwell had apologized...
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