Miccosukee Tribe5/22/2013
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IRS bills Indian tribe $170M for failing to report payments to members
(Florida) -- The Internal Revenue Service has ordered a Florida Indian tribe to pay $170 million for failing to withhold taxes on gambling distributions.
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IRS hits Miccosukee Tribe with $170M bill
(Florida) -- The Internal Revenue Service has hit the Miccosukee Tribe with a $170 million bill for failing to withhold taxes from gambling profits given to members,...
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Tribe Must Arbitrate Embezzlement Claims
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indians must arbitrate claims a former tribal chairman embezzled millions from its Morgan Stanley accounts, a federal judge ruled.
5/21/2013
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IRS slams Miccosukee Indians with hundreds of millions in tax liens
(Florida) -- The Internal Revenue Service has slammed the Miccosukee Indians with a bill of $170 million for the West Miami-Dade tribe’s failure to report and...
4/21/2013
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Nine years later, Miccosukee checkpoint on Loop Road persists despite complaints
(Florida) -- In the fading daylight, 22 miles west of Krome Avenue, an armed, uniformed Miccosukee security officer idled inside a white SUV just south of the state road...
4/16/2013
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Miami attorney accused of perjury contradicts former Miccosukee clients’ testimony
(Florida) -- A former defense attorney for two Miccosukee Indians who lost a fatal car-crash lawsuit testified Tuesday that, contrary to what the West Miami-Dade tribe...
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Miccosukee Tribe member testifies she didn’t pay her Miami lawyers in perjury hearing
(Florida) -- A Miccosukee Tribe member who was once represented by two high-profile Miami lawyers in a fatal car-crash case testified Monday at their perjury-sanctions...
3/21/2013
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Miccosukee Tribe fires police chief yet again
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Tribe has once again fired its police chief, this time booting Bobby Richardson after just one year on the job.
3/4/2013
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Fla. Tribe Filed 'Nasty' Motion In Malpractice Suit: Law Firm
(Florida) -- Lewis Tein PL asked a Florida state court on Friday to find the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida in contempt in response to a motion the tribe filed...
3/1/2013
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Rep. Nuñez to Gov. Rick Scott: Fight Miccosukees to block chance of golf-course casino
(Florida) -- State Rep. Jeanette Nuñez is enlisting Gov. Rick Scott in an effort to stop the Miccosukee Tribe from getting the chance to turn a Kendall Lakes golf course...
2/11/2013
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Residents concerned over Miccosukee golf club issue
(Florida) -- Residents in one South Florida neighborhood are upset over a controversial golf club plan they say could bring problems to their neighborhood.
11/28/2012
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Miccosukee Indian disputes lawyers’ account about source of legal payments in fatal car-crash case
(Florida) -- A Miccosukee Tribe member testified he did not pay millions of dollars to his former defense attorneys in a fatal car-crash lawsuit, putting him at odds...
11/19/2012
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YOUTUBE: Native American Tribe Loses to IRS in Court, with Tax Attorney Rob Wood in San Francisco
(California) -- Tax attorney Rob Wood of San Francisco talks with the Tax Law Channel, part of The Legal Broadcast Network, about a recent case in which an indian tribe...
10/19/2012
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IRS Wins Fight With Native American Tribe
(Washington D.C.) -- At times there can be a palpable tension between Native American tribes and the IRS. After all, American Indian tribes are sovereign nations. The U....
10/15/2012
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IRS wins key legal battle as it seeks to collect millions in taxes from the Miccosukees
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indians must turn over loads of confidential financial records that could help the U.S. government as it seeks to collect tens of millions of...
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Panel: IRS allowed access to tribe’s financial records
(Florida) -- The Internal Revenue Service is allowed to look at a Florida Native American tribe’s financial records as part of an investigation into gambling...
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U.S. court panel upholds ruling against Miccosukees on IRS files
(Florida) -- A federal appeals court has ruled the Internal Revenue Service can proceed with its efforts to obtain the financial records of an Indian tribe in Florida....
9/25/2012
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Miccosukee Indians detail $10 million in checks to tribe’s former lawyers in Miami
(Florida) -- Accused of fabricating evidence, the Miccosukee Indians have taken the extraordinary step of disclosing about 400 checks totaling more than $10 million that...
8/29/2012
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Fla. tribe wants court to stop IRS subpoenas
(Florida) -- A Florida Indian tribe wants a federal appeals court to stop the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining financial records as part of a tax investigation...
8/16/2012
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Miccosukees accuse ex-leader of “diverting” $4 million to Miami lawyers in fatal car-crash case
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Tribe has jumped into a controversial Miami wrongful-death case, accusing former Chairman Billy Cypress of using the long-running dispute as...
8/1/2012
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IRS Amps Up Miccosukee Tribe Tax Probe
(Florida) -- Bungled in an intense IRS investigation, the Miccosukee Indians’ luck is running out faster than that of its casinos’ gamblers.
7/31/2012
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IRS steps up probe of Miccosukee Tribe’s payouts of gambling profits to members
(Florida) -- The Internal Revenue Service has escalated its investigation into the Miccosukee Indians’ finances, demanding that the West Miami-Dade tribe hand over...
7/12/2012
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Miami federal judge orders Miccosukees to turn over 2010 financial records to IRS
(Florida) -- A Miami federal judge Thursday ordered the Miccosukee Indian Tribe to turn over financial records sought by federal investigators in a civil income-tax...
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Federal judge OKs Everglades clean-up procedures
(Florida) -- A federal judge who blasted state and federal regulators two years ago for failing to enforce anti-pollution laws in the Everglades as given his blessing to...
7/10/2012
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Miccosukee Tribe Again Avoids Lawsuit Over Fatal 2009 Car Crash
(Florida) -- A wrongful death lawsuit against the Miccosukee Tribe over a fatal car accident on tribal lands has once again run into resistance in the courts.
7/7/2012
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Tribal chairman’s binge spending led to bad blood
(Florida) -- Former Miccosukee chairman Billy Cypress saw gambling as the tribe’s savior, but the windfall has led to infighting and lawsuits.
7/6/2012
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Circuit Upholds Tribal Immunity in Death Case
(Florida) -- The 11th Circuit upheld a decision to dismiss a father's claim that the Miccosukee Indian Tribe was negligent when serving his daughter too much alcohol...
7/4/2012
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Native American tribe says former chief stole $26 MILLION to spend on jewelry, cars, houses and gambling trips
(Florida) -- An Indian tribe in Florida says its former chief worked for years to siphon off $26 million in tribal money for his own personal use. A federal lawsuit...
7/3/2012
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Lawsuit: former Miccosukee chief stole millions from tribe
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Tribe has turned against its former chairman with a vengeance, accusing Billy Cypress in a new lawsuit of stealing $26 million from the tribe...
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Miccosukee Tribal Casino is gaming center of South Florida
(Florida) -- In the early 70’s South Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe erected a simple, unremarkable building on the eastern most plot of land on their reservation...
4/5/2012
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Lewis and Tein, Miami lawyers in Miccosukee Indian wrongful-death case, face Florida Bar ethics probes
(Florida) -- Michael Tein and Guy Lewis, the high-profile former federal prosecutors sued this week by the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, are facing two Florida Bar ethics...
4/2/2012
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Miccosukee Indian Tribe alleges “fraud" in legal malpractice suit against former Miami U.S. attorney and law partner
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indians are accusing two Miami defense attorneys of operating a “secret and sophisticated scheme” to fleece them as they raked in...
3/26/2012
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Miami attorneys accuse judge of anti-Indian “bias’’ in Miccosukee wrongful-death case
(Florida) -- A Miami lawyer accused of lying about whether the Miccosukee Tribe paid him millions in defense fees is trying to remove the judge on the case, saying a...
2/13/2012
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Miccosukee members may owe IRS
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indian tribe in South Florida says its members might owe nearly $26 million to the Internal Revenue Service because of bad legal advice.
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Miccosukee Tribe Blames Ex-Lawyer in Ongoing IRS Dispute
(Florida) -- Going to a backup defense in their ongoing tussle with the IRS, the Miccosukee Indians are blaming the tribe's former attorney for "faulty advice....
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