McCain forged close ties to Las Vegas, tribal casinos (Guidiville Urban Casino discussed - page 6)
9/28/2008, New York Times
NEW YORK -  McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party's evangelical base, opponents of gambling. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of McCain.


Target of murder-for-hire plot sues Mexican Mafia, San Manuel tribal members for $50 million9/28/2008, The Press Enterprise
A former bar manager is suing a couple of top Mexican Mafia members and two San Manuel Indians who were convicted earlier this year of plotting to kill him in 2006. Leonard Epps, who ran afoul of the tribal members when he was managing the Brass Key bar in Highland, filed the lawsuit last week. He is suing a half dozen people who were named in the murder-for-hire scheme against him. Federal drug agents uncovered the plot while investigating a different case and helped Epps fake his own slaying to throw the group off his trail.


'Rez disease' of alcohol, drugs is deadly among Seminole youth 9/26/2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
For young members of the Seminole Tribe, this should be the best of times. With annual revenues from casinos and other businesses that have topped $1.4 billion, the tribe provides each of its 3,300 members with an income of about $120,000 a year, a free education and a guaranteed job. And many college-educated Seminoles are coming home to work in the tribe's Hollywood headquarters. Despite these positive developments, young Seminoles die at an alarming rate from drug overdoses, alcohol-involved car crashes and suicide. Of 17 Seminole deaths recorded so far in 2008, 11 - or about 65 percent - have been linked to drug or alcohol abuse, according to figures obtained by the Sun Sentinel.