Federal Judge Says Government Owes Tribes For Mismanaging Funds

(June 18, 2019, 1:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States failed to prudently invest money at various times for three funds established to pay members of the Western Shoshone tribes for the government’s taking of their ancestral lands in Nevada and California without just compensation, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge held June 13 (The Western Shoshone Identifiable Group, et al. v. United States, No. 06-896L, Fed. Clms.)....

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