Navajo Nation Ethics Office probes Fulton campaign flyer use
The Navajo Nation Ethics and Rules Office investigates allegations that Fulton misused office aids to help a campaign. An anonymous caller and Fort Defiance Chapter House staff are cited, with a flyer bearing Fulton's image discovered on Sept. 17 in a copy machine. Fulton says she was unaware of the probe and open about questions.
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Malcolm Br ‘Statt
Gallup
Navajo, Nation’ Tribal Council
Fort
Defiance
de Egate
Fulton
Loritta Johnson
Bates
Chapter House
Johnson
Independent
T .E
Fort Defiance
Laurita ‘Repay
Gecretary
Pele
Navajo child welfare urged to raise national standards
Carolyn Calvin reports Navajo Nation child protection programs lag behind non Indian systems. Thomas Morton and Leila Pianta of the Child Welfare Institute of Atlanta praise the tribe's efforts yet call for more resources and improved training. Dietz notes child sexual abuse as a top crime and cites lack of computer tracking as a major obstacle. Navajo officials seek seminars to raise services to national norms despite federal funding gaps.
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Carolyn Calvin
Navy
Anata
Morton
Richard Dietz
National Resource Center
Atlanta
Dietz
Navajo Nation
Arizona
Ethics clash over 700 Klub probe and Lopez grand jury testimony
In Albuquerque attorney Billy Blackburn released a transcript of Officer Eve lyn Lopez interview on June 12 in which she admits lying to grand jurors about narcotics drug handling. She says she feared then-agent Eddie Abeyta and implicates him in pressuring accounts while naming others who aided her. The case centers on the 700 Klub, a Gallup Navajo Zuni task force affiliate, and ongoing questions about truthfulness and accountability within the force.
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Gallup
Evelyn’ Lopez
700 Klub
Albuquerque
Billy Blackburn
Blackburn
Lopez Junie 12
Leonard Piotrowski
Milton Gabaldon
Gabaldon
McKinley
Tricounty
Lopez
Eddie Abeyta
McKinley County
Sheriff's Department
Buffington weighs possible probe into narcotics unit
McKinley County District Attorney Buffington said he might open an inquiry into alleged misconduct by the region I Narcotics Enforcement Task Force. The call for a grand investigation circulates as Buffington notes his handling of Evelyn Lopez perjury case and the related certification issue. Prosecutors condemned a past lie to a grand jury while Eddie Abeyta faced questions after a missing six thousand dollars in drug money.
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Gallup
McKinley County
Shree
Ofce
Evelyn Lopez
Attorney General's Office
New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy
Lopez
Buffington
The
Independent
Eddie Abeyta
Region I Narcotics Enforcement Task Force
Dusty Downs
Farmington
Abeyta
Fence funds to aid Moenkopi Hopi drought relief efforts
The Moenkopi Natural Resources Conservation District plans five miles of fencing across the southern Moenkopi Wash to keep livestock from farmland and about five miles of ditches off Arizona Highway 264 to improve irrigation. Remaining funds will support reseeding, weed control, and water projects at Pasture Canyon and Moenkopi Reservoir with eventual irrigation lines and wind power exploration. The district also eyes Beaver Dam project and stocking Moenkopi Reservoir with forested land by Game and Fish collaboration.
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Ariz
Natural Resources Conservaion District
Ams
Canyon
Arizona’ Game
Fish’Department
Tuba City
County to contest trash-site closure dispute grows
County commissioners clash with the NWNMSWA over transfer stations closures blamed for funding crises. Ben Shelly and Harry Mendoza cite conflict of interest and Navajo Nation inaction. Pat Butler says education and shared responsibility are needed to restore solid waste services.
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Bettina Freese
Gallup
Ben Shelly
Northwest
New Mexico
Shelly
Mendoza
ABC
Pat; Butler
Nkaten
Butler
Nwnmswa
Zuni
Pro
Pathe Solid Waste Authority
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Guns
Andrea. Egger
the Independent
Action 7 News
Farmington Action
Kelly Bundy
Andrea Egger Stat
Meoney Forrest’ Buffington
Michael Sanchez
Sanchez
Hopis
Univeral
Mexico
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