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1994 The Arizona Daily Star
Final Edition, Tucson, Sunday, October , 1994'osh ranch resort stuns O'odham
I1be is suing ex-accountant for alleged embezzlement*nric Volante
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T j! HELNS, Texas
a tant Emilio G.- Tribal ac-
Dutari drewJ- attention when he wired
e than $2.7 million from Tuc-
ro this quiet town in the oak-
4' J ed hills of east Texas.
it three years after he began
'-rng the money, officials of
Tohono O'odham Nation are
3, him for alleged embezzle-
h. Dutari also is the target of
I1 investigation.
( adham officials charge that
ir senior accountant kept
m in the dark as he wired tri-
funds to a bank account con-trolled by four friends in Texas.
Then they used the tribe's
money to buy the estate of a
Texas oil baron - complete with
a 20-bedroom mansion, three
fishing lakes, tennis courts and a
helicopter pad - and operate it as
a guest ranch, tribal officials al-
lege.
For 16 months, the Mead-
owood Ranch resort discreetly
solicited business from gay corn-
munities across the country and
overseas - until tribal officials
demanded their . money and
forced its closure.
"It was a terrible scam," said
a source familiar with a confiden-tial audit of the tribal office
where Dutar! worked in Sells, 60
miles west of Tucson.
Tribal records show Dutari
transferred $2.15 million in "pur-
ported loans" secured by the
deed to the 654-acre ranth,
The resort closed in May and
the operators turned it over to
the tribe in June in lieu of fore-
closure, deed records show.
But after several months of le-
gal wrangling, the tribe has re-
covered less than a third of an
estimated $3.1 million that the-
Meadowood affair appears to
have cost in loss of transferred
funds, lost investment income, at-- torney ad auditor fees, travel
costs and ranch maintenance,
sources said.
"The scary part of this is that
both the executive office and the
Legislative Council are not saying
how much is involved because
they're all to blame" for failing
to prevent the alleged misappro
priation of funds, said former fi
bal council member Tony Felix.
Chairman Sylvester Listo, At-
torney General David Frank and
other top tribal officials, who
have handled much Meadowood
business in closed-door meetings,
said they would not comment be-
See RESORT, Page 2AThis 20-bedroom mansion is pt
as, that Tohono O'odham officis
countant bought using more than
ey. The tribe has sued the accoui
an FBI investigation.w
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