Buffalo Point’s chief facing charges of extortion
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Monthly Digital Subscription
$0 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
Monthly Digital Subscription
$4.75/week*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $19 plus GST every four weeks. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
*Your next subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $16.99 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $23.99 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/10/2013 (4393 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
John Thunder, Chief of the Buffalo Point First Nation, faces extortion charges in a complicated scheme involving federal influence to sidetrack cottagers from pursuing court action against him, RCMP reported today.
“The investigation showed the correspondence from Chief John Thunder… to (a) federal government official made an attempt to derail a civil legal proceeding,” the RCMP statement said. It went on to identify the legal proceeding as the court case between the Buffalo Point Cottagers Association, the Buffalo Point First Nation Development and the Buffalo Point First Nation.
The RCMP’s Major Crime unit launched the investigation this summer after their Sprague detachment took a complaint July 2 about correspondence to a federal government official with some involvement with the Cottagers Association.
That triggered the probe.
The statement said the complaint expressed “concern” about the correspondence but it did not disclose the nature of the correspondence.
The federal government employee stepped back from the issue and did not act in any official capacity, letting the RCMP do their work, the RCMP said.
On Oct. 22, Chief John Thunder of the Buffalo Point First Nation was arrested. He has been charged with extortion and released on a promise to appear in a Winnipeg court Nov. 25