What To Do With Paquin?
The Paquin Situation
Former Director Paquin was suspended several times within the last year. Now the FBI and BIA are allegedly investigating suspended Chief Of Police Paquin. During all this time Former Director Paquin and suspended Chief Of Police Paquin has been getting paid. The Community is tight lipped on this one. Regardless if the FBI and the BIA are investigating Former Director Paquin and suspended Chief Of Police Paquin, there must be some very serious allegations.
The Tribe has a tendency to protect the higher echelon regardless of what they have done. Maybe it was because of the infamous evergreen contracts crafted under Bernard Bouschors watch? Below are some of the various articles that were published Nation wide regarding Fred Paquin.
Sault Tribe Police Chief Scandal « Turtle Talk
Dec 13, 2007 ... Fred Paquin, who is also police chief for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, was removed as chairman of the Detroit casino in ...turtletalk.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/sault-tribe-police-chief-scandal/ - 36k - Cached - Similar pages
Smoke Signals: CHIEF OF POLICE: FRED PAQUIN SUSPENDED DUE TO ...
FRED PAQUIN SUSPENDED DUE TO FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Chairperson Aaron Payment announced the Sault ...chippewatribe.blogspot.com/2008/05/chief-of-police-fred-paquin-suspended.html - 60k - Cached - Similar pages
Sault tribe police chief returns to work - PowWows.com Gathering
Marie, Michigan (AP) The police chief with the Sault Ste. ... Tribal spokesman Cory Wilson tells that Fred Paquin returned to workrecently. ...www.powwows.com/gathering/news/43971-sault-tribe-police-chief-returns-work.html - 56k - Cached - Similar pages
St. Ignace: Fred Paquin Faces 2nd Suspension
Fred Paquin of St. Ignace has been suspended from his post as the tribe's chief of police for a second time in eight months. Sault Ste. ...www.yourstreet.com/2008/5/13/26/3333237/fred-paquin-faces-2nd-suspension - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
News From Indian Country - Sault tribe police chief returns to work
The police chief with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa is back on ... Tribal spokesman Cory Wilson tells that Fred Paquin returned to work recently. ...indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2908&Itemid=109 - 33k - Cached - Similar pages
Greektown Casino Chairman Steps Down After Assualt Charges ...
Dec 15, 2007 ... Fred Paquin, the chairman of the Greektown Casino board of directors has ... Paquin, aged 50, is also a police chief for the Sault Ste. ...news.777.com/2007-12/casino-chairman-faces-assualt-charges - 21k - Cached - Similar pages
Smoke Signals: Sault Tribe Retaliation Layoffs?
Darryl Brown, funded by advertising sales to the Sault Tribe news, ... Fred Paquin - suspended for theft. Under investigation by the FBI and the BIA. ...chippewatribe.blogspot.com/2008/08/sault-tribe-retaliation-layoffs.html - 64k -
The Oakland Press: Police
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) -- Prosecutors have dismissed an assault charge ... Fred Paquin, 50, reached an agreement with the state attorney general's ...www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/030308/pol_20080303387.shtml - 38k - Cached - Similar pages
Macomb Daily : BREAKING NEWS: Greektown Casino chairman resigns ...
Fifty-year-old Fred Paquin also is police chief for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. He denies an assault. But he has been suspended with pay ...www.macombdaily.com/stories/121307/loc_20071213011.shtml - 36k - Cached - Similar pages
IndianzCom News Assault charge against exSoo police chief dropped
Prosecutors in Michigan dropped a misdemeanor assault charge against the former police chief of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Fred Paquin ...www.indianz.com/News/2008/007425.asp - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
Assault case topples Greektown Casino chairman
"Fred Paquin, who is also police chief for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, was removed as chairman of the Detroit casino in November -- only ...www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article.cfm?contentID=170313 - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
In the first incident involving the former legal secretary Paquin entered into a deferred prosecution agreement. If he doesn't engage in any assaultive or threatening behavior for the next six months and completes an assessment and counseling, the charge will be dropped. Something obviously happened or Paquin would have never been under those restrictions.
So do we continue to pay this nuisance when the Board just passed a resolution to restrict evergreen contracts? The Tribes eyes have been blackened enough?
Terminate Paquins contract and pay him his 6 months pay and move on. Why continue to pay someone who is not working? If Paquin is found guilty then what? How will the Tribe retrieve the money he made during the suspension?
Let's not forget the three State Police incidents reports and the Massey case.
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