Judge Bars Alaska Native Corporations From Getting Pandemic Funds, For Now

Mealey's (April 28, 2020, 12:21 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — For-profit Alaska Native corporations will not receive federal coronavirus relief funding when it is disbursed to tribal governments April 28 after a federal judge the day before preliminarily enjoined the Treasury Department from sending any of the $8 billion set aside for tribes to the corporations (Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. v. Steven Mnuchin, No. 1:20-cv-1002, D. D.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73355)....