Updated: A man who has been described in court hearings as a deputy “chief” and a man who told people he was a “police officer” of the reservation for a non-existent American Indian tribe have decided to plead guilty.
They are the latest to admit guilt in the scheme of the Kaweah Indian Nation, a fake tribe that purported to sell memberships to illegal immigrants for hundreds of dollars with the false promise of legal citizenship.
Chuck Flynn has been charged with being one of the top officers of the so-called Kaweah Indian tribe. He’s set for a change of plea hearing at 11 a.m. Thursday before U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley E. Brown.
Britton Bergman also is set for plea before Brown, on Aug. 1 rescheduled for 10:15 a.m.Tuesday. Bergman, a college student, had claimed to be a policeman for the Kaweah’s at their office in Wichita.
What they’re pleading guilty to won’t become public until after the hearings.
Malcom Webber, the leader who also went by “Grand Chief Thunderbird IV,” and other defendants are set for trial Aug. 5.