Demonstrating what some Oneida Tribe members call the “p¡ss-poor communication skills” (or PPCS) of Oneida Business Committee Secretary Lisa Summers (who is either woefully incapable of carrying out her duties or intentionallly starving Tribe members of information) and the rest of the OBC, there have not been any videos of the bi-monthly Oneida Business Committee’s Regular Meetings posted on the Oneida Tribe’s own website since (drumroll…) September of 2014!
Think about that…
DESPITE a $450 Million Tribal budget and paying Tribal employees to provide videos to enrolled Tribe members via the ‘Member’s Only’ section of the Tribe’s website, OBC Secretary Lisa Summers and the Oneida Business Committee have FAILED for ONE YEAR to provide access to OBC meeting videos on the Tribe’s website.
Until September 2014, videos of OBC Regular Meetings had been posted in the ‘Members Only’ section of the Oneida Tribe’s website for years, along with videos of Community Discussions regarding topics to be addressed at upcoming General Tribal Council Meetings.
The OBC’s Regular Meetings, held at 9 a.m. on the second & fourth Wednesday of every month, are open to the public and non-Tribal members are invited to attend and comment on the issues before the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin’s Business Committee (as OBC Vice-Chair Melinda Danforth states in the audio of the July 8, 2015 OBC Regular Meeting linked below).
Which raises the question as to why the OBC Regular Meeting videos are being hosted in a ‘Members Only’ area of the Tribe’s website in the first place…
unless someone wants to keep track of which Tribe members are trying to watch what videos and/or they’re trying to prevent the general public from having access to recordings of public meetings.
Likewise, only enrolled members of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin are allowed to download the Meeting Packets for OBC Regular Meetings from the Tribe’s website after logging in.
Is that to keep track of which Tribe members are being politically active and to keep non-Tribe members in the dark?
What is the Oneida Business Committee trying so hard to hide?
As of the evening of August 8, 2015, the OBC ‘Videos’ page on the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin’s website states (after logging in), “The resource cannot be found”:
Looking for OBC Meeting Videos? Here’s what a $450 Million Tribal budget will get you!
In contrast, as a FREE public service, Oneida Eye is providing links to stream or download audio recordings of the July 8, 2015 and of the July 22, 2015 OBC Regular Meetings, as well as the July 22, 2015 OBC Regular Meeting packet and August 12, 2015 OBC Regular Meeting packet due to the fact that the OBC did not finish addressing all of the items on the July 22 OBC Agenda and will have to address those items on August 12:
- July 8, 2015 Oneida Business Committee Regular Meeting audio (the action starts at the 9 minute mark)
- July 22, 2015 Oneida Business Committee Regular Meeting audio (the action starts at the 30 minute mark)
UPDATE:
- August 17, 2015 Oneida Business Committee Special Meeting audio (the action starts right off the bat)
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At the 1 hr 36 min 40 sec mark of the July 22, 2015 OBC Meeting you can hear an outrageous discussion where Illegal OBC member David ‘Fleet’ Jordan and OBC member Jenny Webster repeatedly tell Frank Cornelius Sr. that OBC Sec. Lisa Summers had told the OBC that Frank had not provided the OBC with copies of four proposed GTC Resolutions which Frank had gathered enough petition signatures to place on a GTC Meeting Agenda for GTC’s consideration.
OBC Sec. Lisa Summers’ Executive Assistant Lisa Liggins starts off the parade of OBC & Staff idiots who lie, OBC & Staff liars who are idiots:
Lisa Liggins: I’m not sure where the Resolutions are and that’s the point of the [July 22] memo from Sec. Summers. The memo from Sec. Summers indicates that the Resolutions have not been submitted. It’s a continuation of a discussion that you guys had at the June 24 [OBC] Meeting. She was directed to meet with [Frank Cornelius Sr.]. She met with [Frank Cornelius Sr.] ith [OBC member] Jennifer Webster and, I believe, [OBC member] Tehassi Hill. They met, talked about the concerns of the [OBC]. [Frank] submitted a Report that’s included in the handout. Additional copies are on the back table along with [Sec. Summers’] memo. The Report’s included and there were no Resolutions.
OBC Sec. Lisa Summer’s July 22, 2015 Memo re: ‘Petitioner Frank Cornelius; Special GTC meeting to address four resolutions which Lisa Liggins is referring to states:
My office was then directed to work with the petitioner to find a solution to the concerns discussed at the June 24, 2015, OBC meeting. These concerns surrounded the missing resolutions and how the OBC could work with the petitioner to both comply with the laws and policies and meet the petitioner’s desire to report to GTC.
On Monday, June 29, 2015 a meeting was held with the petitioner. Council members Jennifer Webster and Tehassi Hill also attended this meeting. We reviewed the concerns of the OBC and the petitioner. An additional conern was brought forward by the petitioner regarding how the petitioner’s last petition was handled and that he had already submitted the resolutions with the petition. An agreement was reached: to research this additional concern and, realizing that additional time would be needed, for this item to be addressed with any additional information at the July 2015, regular Business Committee meeting.
Update
I’ve researched the petition submitted on May 12, 2014 and found no resolutions submitted. All materials pertaining to this petition can be found in the July 23, 2014, regular Business Committee meeting packet and minutes.
OBC SEC. LISA SUMMERS AND HER ASSISTANT LISA LIGGINS ARE BOTH LIARS AND/OR IDIOTS AND/OR WORSE!!!
As PROOF, here are copies of Frank Cornelius Sr.’s four proposed GTC Resolutions that are date-stamped JUNE 26, 2015 by the OBC Secretary’s Office:
Oneida Eye published the Report and the recommend four Resolutions by GTC’s elected representative regarding the dissolution on June 29 after Frank Cornelius gave us a clean copy of what he had provided to the OBC Secretary’s office and had them date stamp on June 26.
Frank Cornelius has had to deal with these lying idiots on the OBC and their staffs for over 18 months since General Tribal Council voted to require the OBC to allow Frank to “assist and work with the OBC on [OSGC’s] dissolution” and the OBC, along with the OBC’s Chief Counsel, have refused to do so at every turn in defiance of the supreme governing body of the Oneida Tribe and in contempt of the Oneida Constitution & Laws and the Indian Civil Rights Act.
At one point during the insanely deceitful claims and false accusations by the OBC at the July 22 OBC Meeting, Frank Cornelius Sr., a retired Marine, having repeatedly and truthfully stated that he had provided the OBC with copies of his four proposed GTC Resolutions said in exasperation:
I’m 82 years old! I’m not going to live forever!
The evil & assinine OSGC cheerleading squad known as the Oneida Business Committee seem to be counting on that.
Predictably, professional liar, domestic abuser and habitual criminal and OBC member Brandon Stevens – who was previously the OBC Liaison to Oneida Seven Generations Corporation – tried to twist Frank Cornelius Sr.’s words by falsely and adamantly claiming over and over that Frank had not submitted any Resolutions. Brandon parrots Lisa’s false claim against Frank in his August 12, 2015 Memo as the Chair of the Legislative Operating Committtee. Then again, Brandon Stevens lying to promote & protect OSGC over and against the interests & expressed political will of GTC is about as shocking as the sun rising & setting.
OBC Chair Tina Danforth – another OSGC cheerleader who appears to be doing everything in her power to prevent the dissolution of OSGC despite being ordered to dissolve OSGC by GTC on December 15, 2013 – is currently the OBC’s Liaison to OSGC.
Are OBC Chair Tina Danforth and the rest of the OBC truly being kept in the dark and lied to about Frank Cornelius Sr.’s four Resolutions by OBC Secretary Lisa Summers and her Executive Assistant Lisa Liggins?
Or, as seems more likely, are the OBC and OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House acting in a conspiracy together to defend OSGC by denying Frank Cornelius Sr. and the GTC their due process in violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act, given that the GTC voted in December 2013 for Frank Cornelius Sr. to be allowed to “assist and work with the OBC on [OSGC’s] dissolution” so that Frank could provide reports back to GTC which the OBC has consistently refused to allow Frank to do by using phony claims and outright lies?
The topic of Frank Cornelius Sr.’s petition was supposed to be adressed again at the August 12, 2015 OBC Regular Meeting and was on the Agenda but… guess what?
The OBC never even addressed the topic let alone apologize to Frank for lying about him and to him and other GTC advocates during a governmental meeting on the official & public record.
UPDATE 8/17/2015: The OBC held a continuation of the discussion of this topic at a Special OBC Meeting on Monday August 17 (click here to stream or download the audio) and the OBC still refused to apologize to Frank Cornelius Sr. for lying to and about him on the public record in a government meeting.
OBC Sec. Lisa Summers claimed at the August 17 Special OBC Meeting that the original copy of Frank Cornelius’ four Resolutions date stamped JUNE 26 by the Secretary’s office had at some point been given to the office of OBC Chair Tina Danforth and was not returned to the Secretary’s office by time of the July 22, 2015 OBC Regular Meeting which Sec. Summers did not attend.
Were OBC Chair TINA DANFORTH, her Senior Policy Advisor JACOB METOXEN, and Tina’s Executive Assistant MARY GRAVES the LIARS AND/OR IDIOTS AND/OR WORSE who lost or withheld Frank’s four Resolutions as Lisa claims?
When did the OBC Secretary discover that the documents which she and the OBC had accused Frank Cornelius Sr. of not making available had been in the custody of the OBC Chair’s office all along?
Why are Jacob Metoxen and Mary Graves suddenly both leaving their jobs in the Chair’s office for better paying, permanent jobs? (At least in Mary’s case regarding her move to the Internal Audit Dept.)
OBC Chair Tina Danforth did not attend the August 17, 2015 Special OBC Meeting where Sec. Summers made this new claim that it was the Chair’s office who was withholding Frank’s Resolutions from the OBC without explaining why the Secretary’s office did not retain copies of Frank’s four Resolutions before giving them to the Chair’s office…
…which raises many, many questions about the competency and/or honesty of the OBC Secretary and the OBC Chair and their staffs…
…the Standard Operating Procedures vs. the actual practices of the chain-of-custody of Tribal records and documents…
…and whether the OBC and their staffs might actually just be colluding against Frank Cornelius Sr.’s and GTC’s rights to due process as protected under the Indian Civil Rights Act in order to protect Oneida Seven Generations Corporation from GTC’s order to dissolve OSGC and that Frank Cornelius Sr. be allowed to “assist and work with the OBC on [OSGC’s] dissolution.
UPDATE 8/19/2015: THE FOLLOWING IS FROM AN EMAIL FROM OBC CHAIR TINA DANFORTH’S EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT MARY GRAVES:
…Frank’s backup was not lost on my desk for weeks in fact I inquired about that topic today and was told Frank did submit his resolutions to [Fmr. OBC Sec.] Patty [Hoeft] with his original [May 2014] petition. When he submitted the next petition no one told him he had to resubmit the documents. The Secretary’s Office searched but could not find them after meeting with Frank. They were found in Records Management* with Frank’s original petition. Whoever said that they were lost in the Chair’s office is lying.
[* The Director of Records Management is Steve Webster (husband of Oneida Law Office Attorney Rebecca ‘Becky’ Webster). Oneida Tribe members can request and purchase copies of video and/or audio of OBC & GTC Meetings by contacting Steve at swebster@oneidanation.org or by calling the Records Management Dept. about the availability of documents and/or recordings at 920-869-4418. That’s right! Oneida Tribe members can purchase copies of the audio and/or video of public OBC Meetings, but the OBC simply refuses to post either format on the Tribe’s website so that all Tribe members can have free, easy access. (Hide much?) In fact, ONEIDA EYE is waiting for a copy of the audio & video of the August 17 Special OBC Meeting where Sec. Lisa Summers claimed that the OBC Chair’s office had lost Frank’s four Resolutions.]
SO WHO EXACTLY IS INVOLVED IN LYING TO GTC MEMBERS ON THE PUBLIC RECORD AT GOVERNMENT MEETINGS ABOUT OFFICIALLY TIME-STAMPED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS REGARDING PETITIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME GOVERNING BODY OF THE ONEIDA NATION TO REDRESS GRIEVANCES – IN A TIMELY MANNER – WITH DUE PROCESS AS PROTECTED UNDER THE INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACT?
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Let’s not forget the lies told by Former OBC Chair Ed Delgado when, as OBC Chair, he submitted a Travel Request & Memorandum for the February 26, 2014 OBC Regular Meeting Agenda stating:
I will be on vacation from March 3rd to 11th in Phoenix, Arizona. During that time I am requesting a rental car for one day to meet with petitioner Frank Cornelius who currently resides in Yuma, Az. which is 181 miles from Phoenix, Az. I am going to update Mr. Cornelius on the progress of the dissolution on Seven Generations.
Fmr. OBC Chair Ed Delgado’s lies about needing to have the Tribe pay for his car rental so that he could visit Frank Cornelius Sr. in Arizona to keep GTC’s appointed representative regarding OSGC’s dissolution informed about the OBC’s progress (or, as it turns out, lack thereof) can be seen at the 22 minute mark, but you really should watch from the beginning because it is a doozy!:
That turned out to be a giant whopper given that (1) Ed ‘Lying Dirtbag’ Delgado refused to meet with Frank in Arizona despite Frank making himself available, and (2) instead of meeting with Frank as he had told OBC and GTC members he would in order to have part of his travel expenses paid for by the Tribe, Ed ‘Lying Dirtbag’ Delgado instead purchased a silver van that he drove from Arizona back to the Oneida Reservation.
Of course, Fmr. OBC Chair Ed Delgado and Fmr. OBC Treasurer & current OBC Chair Tina Danforth have been found by the Tribe’s Appellate Court to have engaged in “harrassment” and “intimidation” of Tribal employees.
In fact, due to the actions of Ed Delgado and Tina Delgado-Danforth, the Tribe paid a settlement to Dale Wheelock this year regarding Brown Co. Case No. 2013CV1245.
All of this evidence demonstrates a pattern of how the OBC, with the advice and assistance of OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House, shows their supposed “Respect for Elders” (including veterans):
By LYING TO AND ABOUT ELDERS & GTC ADVOCATES IN PUBLIC AND ON THE RECORD DURING TRIBAL GOVERNMENTAL MEETINGS, and making them run around in circles so that the OBC can try to protect Oneida Seven Generations Corporation from the Oneida people, all the while violating Tribe members’ rights which are protected by the Indian Civil Rights Act.
IT. WILL. NOT. WORK.
GTC VOTED TO DISSOLVE OSGC.
AND FOR FRANK TO BE ALLOWED TO ASSIST.
AND NOW WE NEED AN INVESTIGATION.
OSGC NEEDS TO DIE IN A FIRE.
YESTERDAY.
Oneida Eye’s analysis of the July 22, 2015, discussion (starting at the 2 hr 39 min mark) regarding OBC’s Emergency Amendments to the Election Law based on BIA Acting Deputy Regional Office Director Scott Sufficool’s letter and the OBC ignoring appeal timeframes and failing to keep GTC aware of OBC’s actions to address any ‘threat’ to GTC’s health, safety & welfare is this:
Neither OBC Chair Tina Delgado-Danforth, nor OBC Vice-Chair Melinda Danforth, nor OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House were willing to address Mike Debraska’s very simple question…
If OBC made Emergency Amendments to the Election Law at an Emergency OBC Meeting on June 28, 2015 on the basis of BIA Regional Acting Deputy Director Scott Sufficool’s letter dated June 19, 2015 in order to allow 18-20 year olds to attend the July 6, 2015 GTC Semi-Annual Meeting and to vote in the July 11, 2015 Special Election due to some ‘Emergency‘ threat to health, safety, or welfare, then WHY didn’t the OBC and their Chief Counsel at the very least inform the General Tribal Council of that ‘Emergency’ and the surrounding issues at the July 6, 2015 GTC Meeting if not ask GTC – the supreme governing body of the Tribe – to agree to retroactively approve the OBC’s Emergency Amendments?
Why didn’t the OBC simply publish the June 19, 2015 letter from the BIA’s Regional Office Acting Dept. Director Scott Sufficool and their OBC Emergency Meeting Agenda and the OBC Emergency Amendments to the Election Law on the Tribe’s Facebook page if not just post it on the front page of the Tribe’s website?
Wasn’t it supposed to have been a momentous occasion?
Just as Cathy Metoxen asked about at the July 8 OBC Meeting, Brad Graham addressed at the July 22 OBC Meeting the phony claim by Vice-Chair Melinda Danforth that there was some kind of ‘threat’ that required holding an ‘Emergency Meeting’ to pass ‘Emergency Amendments’ to the Election Law on June 28 (but somehow was not important enough to inform General Tribal Council about at the July 6 GTC Meeting).
Vice-Chair Melinda Danforth’s silly attempts to claim that 18-20 year olds not being able to vote or hold office via the July 11, 2015 Special Election somehow posed a threat to the health, safety & welfare of the Tribe is ridiculous.
OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House’s long-winded attempt at trying to justify why OBC kept GTC in the dark regarding the need for ‘Emergency’ action is preposterous.
Neither one of them ever addressed Mike Debraska’s simple question:
WHY DIDN’T THE OBC AND/OR THE OBC’S CHIEF COUNSEL TELL GTC ABOUT THE OBC’S JUNE 28th EMERGENCY AMENDMENTS TO THE ELECTION LAW AT THE JULY 6th GTC SEMI-ANNUAL MEETNG IF THERE WAS ANY REAL & CREDIBLE ‘THREAT’ TO THE HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE OF THE TRIBE?
THE REAL ANSWER IS THIS:
IT IS THE GOAL OF THE ONEIDA BUSINESS COMMITTEE TO TAKE POWER AWAY FROM GENERAL TRIBAL COUNCIL AT EVERY TURN, AND THE OBC’S CHIEF COUNSEL IS HELPING THE OBC DO IT.
Remember: This is the exact same OBC and OBC Chief Counsel that arbitrarily & capriously tried to exclude the Milwaukee-based Southeast Oneida Tribal Services (SEOTS) facility as a polling site in the inaugural election of the Oneida Judiciary until GTC voted to force the OBC to stop disenfranchising Oneida voters and include a SEOTS polling site in all future elections.
In fact, at the March 28, 2015 GTC Special Meeting OBC members Brandon Stevens, Ronald Tehassi Hill, Fawn Billie, and Jennifer Webster openly voted against including the SEOTS polling site in all future elections and wanted instead to continue to allow the OBC to arbitrarily & capriciously decide whether to disenfranchise Oneida Tribal members on an election-by-election basis, just as the OBC had planned for the Special Election of the Oneida Judiciary. Losers.
It should also be noted that former Oneida Appeals Commission Hearing Officers Jean Webster and Kathy Hughes, and Chris J. Cornelius, openly and officially demonstrated their willingness to violate Frank Cornelius’ and other GTC members’ rights of due process which are protected by the Indian Civil Rights Act:
- Oneida Tribal Appellate Body Remands Judiciary Election Case Back To Trial Body For Its Failure To Conduct A Hearing And Its Denial Of Due Process & Civil Rights in Docket # 14-AC-012, Frank Corlius, Michael Debraska, Leah Dodge, Brad Graham & John Orie v. Oneida Business Committee, Oneida Election Board & Oneida Law Office
On August 20, 2014, the Appellants (Petitioners) filed a request for an Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order against the Respondents to postpone the August 23, 2014 Special Election [of the Oneida Tribal Judiciary until] the inclusion of the SEOTS polling site. They also requested a Declaratory Ruling that all Business Committee and Judiciary elections include the SEOTS polling site. The Trial [Body] answered the Injunction/Restraining Order by denial. The Declaratory Ruling request was not answered by the Trial [Body]. …
The Trial [Body Hearing Officers, Jean Webster and Chris J. Cornelius and Kathy Hughes,] failed to provide an answer to the Appellants’ request.
By the Trial [Body Hearing Officer]’s failure to conduct a hearing on issue[s] presented, we find a denial of [the Appellants’] due process rights was made. No hearing was held. …
In respect to the Appellants (Petitioners’) request for Declaratory Ruling, the Trial [Body] failed to conduct a hearing, no record was made. Within the founding General Tribal Council Resolution, 8-19-91-A, which established the [Oneida Appeals Commission] it indicates:
“Whereas, the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, 25 USC Section 1301-1303 supports the policy that all Indian Tribes exercising powers of self-government shall insure that individual rights are protected and that people have a right to “petition for redress of grievances.”
But that’s not the only time that Oneida Appeals Commission Hearing Officers have abused their position against Frank Cornelius’ and other GTC members’ civil rights:
- Saturday January 10 Special Election Cancelled By Appellate Body’s Ruling That Trial Body’s Decision Is “Clearly Erroneous” & “Against The Weight Of The Evidence” regarding the opinoin of Hearing Officers Jean Webster and Kathy Hughes and Sandra Skenandore in OAC Docket # 14-TC-90, Franklin Cornelius, Michael Debraska, Leah Dodge & Bradley Graham v. Oneida Business Committee, Oneida Election Board & Oneida Law Office
Perhaps the OBC didn’t talk to GTC about the OBC’s Emergency Amendments to the Election Law because they were afraid that – given the opportunity – GTC might have adopted other amendments to secure and ensure the integrity of the vote., or vote to nullify the illegal April 11, 2015 Special Election to address the OBC vacancy.
Also – contrary to OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House’s false claim at the July 22 OBC Meeting that there was no other way to address the problem than ramming ‘Emergency Amendments’ through and keeping GTC in the dark about it – the OBC could have been informed GTC about the various issues that led to the OBC’s action and then GTC could have voted whether to delay the Special Election until the matters surrounding changes to the Oneida Constitution were finally resolved.
You’d think an Attorney/GTC Parliamentarian like Jo Anne House would know that and make GTC aware of the facts, but OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House is looking out for her real client’s interest, which is helping OBC take power away from GTC by keeping GTC in the dark about their rights and the OBC’s limitations and law violations.
WARNING TO GENERAL TRIBAL COUNCIL: JO ANNE HOUSE IS NOT YOUR ATTORNEY; SHE IS THE ONEIDA BUSINESS COMMITTEE’S ATTORNEY AND IS ACTING AS GTC’S ADVERSARY.
JO ANNE HOUSE IS AIDING & ABETTING (IF NOT DIRECTING) THE OBC IN THEIR EFFORTS TO KEEP GTC UNINFORMED WHILE UNDERMINING GTC’S AUTHORITY AS THE SUPREME GOVERNING BODY OF THE ONEIDA NATION IN WISCONSIN.
Oneida Eye reaffirms its position that the OBC’s June 28, 2015 Emergency Amendments to the Election Law were illegal because there was no true ‘threat’ to health, safety nor welfare of the Tribe nor Tribe members, and if there had been any ‘threat’ to the Tribe that required OBC to take ‘Emergency’ action then OBC and OBC’s Chief Counsel had an obligation to fully inform GTC about that ‘threat’ at the July 6, 2015 Semi-Annual Meeting, including providing GTC copies of BIA Regional Acting Deputy Director Scott Sufficool’s June 19, 2015 letter and the ‘Emergency’ Amendments.
But as OBC Vice-Chair Melinda Danforth admits during the July 22 discussion of the issues surrounding the OBC passing Emergency Amendments without informing their bosses – GTC – little more than a week later as to why they did so, the OBC relies upon the advice and consultation (and we suspect the direction) of the OBC’s Chief Counsel, Jo Anne House.
THE BLAME FOR KEEPING GTC IN THE DARK AT THE JULY 6 GTC SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING ABOUT THE OBC’s JUNE 28 ‘EMERGENCY’ ACTIONS FALLS SQUARELY ON EVERY OBC OFFICER & MEMBER AND ON THE OBC’S CHIEF COUNSEL.
Does the Oneida Business Committee have the courage to hold a quorum for the Regular Meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, August 12, 2015?
Will the OBC find the courage to record and post their meeting videos again… ever?
SOLUTIONS:
- GTC DEMANDS A PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED PARLIAMENTARIAN FOR GTC MEETINGS WHO IS NOT NOR HAS BEEN AN EMPLOYEE, CONTRACTED CONSULTANT, OBC MEMBER, OBC CHIEF COUNSEL, NOR ONEIDA LAW OFFICE PERSONNEL
- GTC HIRES ITS OWN LEGAL COUNSEL AS GUARANTEED BY THE ONEIDA TRIBAL CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE IV, Powers of the General Tribal Council, SECTION 1 (b): “To employ legal counsel, choice of counsel and fixing of fees“
. . . BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
UPDATE 8/16/2015:
