Tribal clinic finance manager sentenced in embezzlement

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — The former finance manager of a Chippewa Cree tribal clinic in Box Elder has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling federal money provided to the tribe to operate the clinic.

U.S. District Judge Brian Morris also ordered Theodora Ann Morsette to pay nearly $97,000 in restitution during last week's sentencing hearing in Great Falls.

A federal jury previously convicted the 60-year-old Morsette on three theft charges.

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