Lobbying firm presses government on tribal trust funds
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Trust
Sixteen tribes with trust fund management lawsuits have hired
Quinn Gillespie & Associates to lobby the Obama administration to settle their cases, Roll Call reports.
Jack Quinn and Manuel Ortiz were hired to "Pursue and promote settlement of Indian trust fund cases," according to a
registration document. So far the firm has been paid less than $5,000 to represent the tribes before the
Interior Department, according to a
quarterly report.
The firm's clients include several South Dakota tribes, two Oklahoma tribes and two Utah tribes. All have cases pending before
Judge James Robertson, who recently brokered a settlement to the
Cobell trust fund case involving individual Indian trust funds.
The tribes are
represented in court by
Girardi & Keese, a law firm whose name appears on the lobbying registration documents filed by Quinn Gillespie & Associates.
The Obama administration wants to settle with tribes,
Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins and
Associate
Attorney General Tom Perrelli said at the
National Congress of American Indians winter session in Washington, D.C., last week.
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