The Landmine has obtained an ethics complaint sent to the Alaska Bar Association on behalf of the owners of a Juneau Native allotment that the Central Tribes of Tlingit & Haida wants to use for a casino on Douglas Island.Â
On January 17, 2025 – three days before Donald Trump took office – the National Indian Gaming Commission approved an ordinance from Tlingit & Haida to allow gaming on the Jimmie George Allotment pursuant to the Alaska Native Allotment Act.Â
The complaint does not specifically mention the casino, but references ongoing construction activity on the property.
The complaint alleges that the owners of Jimmie George Allotment signed a mutual non-disclosure agreement without counsel present. Instead, the complaint alleges that Madeline Soboleff-Levy, the previous general counsel for Tlingit & Haida (she suspiciously went to Sealaska in February) and Phillip Baker-Shenk, a Holland & Knight attorney representing Tlingit & Haida, told them unless they signed the NDA they would not be able to retain documents related to the lease.Â
The complaint also says that Tlingit & Haida President Richard Peterson had already signed the NDA when it was presented to them.Â
The complaint alleges several violations including that Soboleff-Levy and Baker-Shenk dealt with unrepresented persons, attempted to chill communications with federal regulators, and uses coercive tactics.Â
The Bar complaint will likely not have any material impact on the lease Tlingit & Haida has with the owners of the Jimmie George Allotment, but it does show that there is now an adversarial relationship between Tlingit & Haida and the owners of the allotment.Â
Oh my gosh, this is such a youge deal! Such a cutting-edge scoop with enormous ramifications for all the Landmine readers, especially those in the populated Mat-Su, ANC, and K Pen communities! Wait until this hits AP national news – we predict a viral uproar!
I’m interested, especially with the Eklutna casino deal following similar lines. Watch for the Nevada folks to enter this story eventually………….
Give us a break. Let’s cut the high-minded act and get down to brass tacks. The only reason you’re even sniffing around this issue is because, just like Landfield, you’ve got that same tired, back-to-the-future bigot streak. You actually sit there and think you’re somehow a cut above the Native community. Everyone with their eyes open sees exactly what’s going on here. Period.
“………Give us a break. Let’s cut the high-minded act and get down to brass tacks……….”
Go sit on your brass tacks, Kelsey.
Let us note that he is not going to deny being Kelsey the Coward either, he continually allows you to call him out for he truly is with no rebuttal whatsoever, it’s pretty hilarious.
Petty Jeff is quick to pounce on Petersen, ’cause he’s still butthurt that T&H kicked him outta his cheap crib. But 24 hours after his buddy, Forrest, was arrested for DWI, still crickets from Jeff on that. That’s Landfield’s “journalistic” ethics in a nutshell for ya.
“………But 24 hours after his buddy, Forrest, was arrested for DWI, still crickets from Jeff on that………”
Ah, were you an editor for the National Enquirer? A story about legal maneuvers regarding Native casinos appears to be appropriate story material. A DWI arrest of an official’s aide? Soap box drama, AFAIC.
Congratulations on your scoop, even if it was on somebody else’s page. Do you have one yourself? It might be interesting to know. And if you have one and refuse to acknowledge it, well, thanks. I appreciate that.
A DUI is a badge of honor, he’ll do a couple of days in a halfway house and get an interlock ignition device for his car. Hopefully he’ll get the proper insurance and some much needed alcohol counseling.
Lol it’s not that they kicked him out – it’s that they’re so incompetent that they bought something they thought they could do a better job at running and it hasn’t reopened in almost a year and is just an ugly eyesore lol
meh, that’s nothing compared to what Democrats get away with. Didn’t we have a Democratic US Senator get re-elected after drunk driving and killing someone?
If the GOP has any balls, they’ll at least demote this dude and never support him running for office again.