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FBI Analyst Testifies about Tribe Wire Transfers in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002

By John Holland, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 13--Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday against three men accused of stealing from the Seminole Indians without calling suspended tribal chairman James Billie, the man at the center of their three-year investigation.

The final witness in Fort Lauderdale federal court called by U.S. Attorney Ed Stamm was FBI financial analyst Gayle Winter. She testified about $2.7 million in wire transfers through bank accounts in Belize and Nicaragua that prosecutors say were controlled by tribe operations director Tim Cox and computer expert Dan Wisher.

The former tribe employees are charged with several counts of embezzlement and money laundering. Wisher's...

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