State Senator Skip Finn's attorney told jurors today Finn never stole money from a tribal insurance fund and...he never conspired to defraud the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe or the federal government. Attorney Doug Kelley says Finn was entitled to even more money than he was paid. Finn and two other tribal officials are on trial in federal court on charges they embezzled over one million dollars from a self-insurance fund Finn controlled as tribal attorney.
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