Federal prosecutors say a Chippewa Cree tribal leader and a former Montana legislator used a shell company to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus aid into their own pockets.
The Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners has agreed to repay the state $42,000 that state officials say they made in overpayments to the county-run chemical dependency center.
An ad placed by Realtor John Suprock offering money to anyone who could replace school trustees Toni Rehbein, Scott Bixler, Joe Toth or Drake Lemm may have run foul of Montana State law.