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Account for Navajo oil funds, Utah ordered

What a mess! | 2:29 p.m. Aug. 25, 2007

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The Utah Navajo Trust Fund is supposed to administer this money to benefit the Navajo people. So they gave money to the Utah Navajo Development Council (which was supposed to be helping the Navajo people) who then created a "for-profit" organization, the Utah Navajo Industries which was supposed to be granting "seed money" for Navajos to start businesses on the Navajo Nation (thereby helping the Navajo people). Some of the people involved in these two organizations embezzled the money (who were they, by the way?) and that's the fault of the State of Utah? Why not sue the embezzlers? Why not hold the two organizations responsible.
Why should the taxpayers of Utah be expected to ante up the money to replace what was stolen. How much taxpayer money is it going to take to go through nearly 40 years of transactions one by one by November? Wow!

not our fault | 3:24 p.m. Aug. 25, 2007

Good point!! Go sue the people that mis managed the funds. I recently drove through the Navajo Nation there is alot of oil rigs down there. there has got to be alot of oil, so make sure that the money in the future doesn't go to dishonest organizations.

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