BIA official tells about accounts

 
By Chris Casteel
Published: October 24, 2007

WASHINGTON — Despite a class-action lawsuit and years of mandated reforms, the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in at least one city still doesn't properly account for the money owed to American Indians from leases on their lands, a Department of Interior attorney testified.

Robert McCarthy , who works in the BIA office in Palm Springs , Calif. , and once worked in the Department of Interior office in Tulsa , ...


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