The Nation - News from Feb. 8, 1989
A Senate panel listened to secretly taped conversations in which the chairman of the Navajo nation told a real estate broker how to cover up money the broker paid him for helping arrange purchase of a ranch by the tribe. The broker, Byron T. (Bud) Brown, taped the conversations in cooperation with investigators for the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs and testified with a grant of immunity before the panel’s special investigative unit. Brown said he arranged for businessman Tom Tracy to buy an Arizona ranch and then sell it to the Navajos. The $7.2-million profit was shared by Tracy, Brown and tribal chairman Peter MacDonald Sr., he said.
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