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Some jurisdictions are trying to make improvements. New York and New Jersey are broadening their testing and sending their interpreters to school for further training. The Federal Government is working on new requirements for Navajo and Haitian-Creole interpreters. And in Los Angeles a federal lawsuit is demanding certified interpreters in immigration proceedings. For now, $ however, the quality of court interpreting around the country depends on the luck of the draw...
...most serious allegation facing MacDonald -- who has yet to respond to a committee subpoena -- concerns a tawdry kickback scam. In July 1987 MacDonald arranged for the Navajos to buy the 491,000-acre Big Boquillas ranch near Seligman, Ariz. The tribe paid $33.4 million for the place, which only two days earlier had been purchased by an oil company for $26.2 million. Real estate broker Byron ("Bud") Brown testified that when he was fixing the deal with MacDonald, the Navajo leader smiled and said, "I assume I'll be taken care of." Replied Brown: "Certainly...
...part in the scheme, MacDonald was to receive up to $750,000 in cash payments. By the time the plot was exposed, Brown says, he had given MacDonald $75,000 in cash and use of a $55,000 BMW. Most of MacDonald's fellow Navajos did not share in his good fortune; they continue to live their old, hardscrabble life. Fully half of all Navajo homes, for example, have no electricity or flush toilets...
...Indian version can offer as much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime, which skims the profits, leaving a pittance to the Indians. At least the Navajo nation is spared this form of corruption, since bingo is unpopular there; but those looking for a big-money game can always find one on a neighboring reservation...
When the tribe's 88-member council voted to place him on indefinite leave with pay, MacDonald got himself reinstated by appealing to a Navajo tribal judge, who happens to be his brother-in-law. But last week the tribe's supreme court challenged the reinstatement. A new judge will hear MacDonald's latest appeal. Says Navajo Peterson Zah, a MacDonald rival and former tribal chief: "MacDonald has let the Navajo people down...