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Wampanoag tribal council ousts Glenn Marshall as chairman

08/28/07 · 6:26 am :: posted by CCToday     

Glenn Marshall thrown out as chairman of the Mashpee Tribe
Revelations here brought quick downfall to Indian leader
"Shunned" members voted back, Exec Comm. may be ousted

By Walter Brooks, capecodtoday.com

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Glenn Marshall's pleas for delay went unheeded last night.  A series of reports here over the past year brought the Tribal leader down.The Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council at last night's meeting voted to immediately remove Glenn Marshall as chairman.  A series of columns by capecodtoday's Peter Kenney lead to the ouster after the mainline media finally began following his lead a week ago.

Looking for love in all the wrong places 

Kenney had been writing here about Marshall's conduct for a year.  A column posted by him on this site yesterday charged that Glenn Marshall has been doing some very peculiar things with tribal funds since at least January 2001. Kenney alleged that in January of 2001 and again in March and November he used tribal funds from the council's business account to subscribe to Friendfinder and logging on to Friend Finder on the web today brought up a colorful page which said "Meet people looking for sex in Fall River."

Marshall met with the council Monday night and offered to resign effective in 30 days, but the council voted 10-1 to make his resignation effective immediately instead.

FBI to investigate claims
To add to Glenn Marshall pile of woes, a story in today's New London Day reports that the FBI has been asked to investigate his claims for five Purple Hearts and on Silver Star. Read it here.Vice chairman Shawn Hendricks has acted as Marshall's stand-in since he stepped aside last week. A spokesman said last night that the tribe will elect a new vice chairman in October to fill in the former position held by Hendricks. Marshall's second four-year term would have ended next year.

Hendricks said last night that he plans to take the next step on Thursday when he files a petition with the federal government to take more than 500 acres of land in  Middleborough and another 100 acres in Mashpee into a trust.

Shunned members voted back in, council reorganized 

Many tribe dissidents, including those whom Marshall had formerly "shunned" who were voted back into the tribe at last night's meeting, say Hendricks  is nothing more than Glenn Marshall's alter ego, and the former, disgraced leader will still be able to run things though his former closest associate in the tribe.  At the very least it is expected that the "rubber stamp" Executive Committee of the Wampanoag Council will be thrown out and replaced by squeaky-clean members of the tribe.

Rank and file members say it is necessary to make a clean sweep of Marshall's former cronies in an effort to repair its reputation at the very time the Massachusetts Governor and Legislature are considering what to grant the tribe in the way of a casino. 

You may read the background of the Marshall ouster story below:

  • Tribe funds used to search for sex in Fall River... BCR
  • Middleborough selectmen, shame on you... Letter
  • Cape tribe leader steps down after exposure, admits cocaine conviction, lies cct
  • The truth about Glenn Marshall, tribe leader ... MediaNation
  • Tribe president's military, police service questioned ... BCR
  • It must be a clerical error ... The Great Gadfly

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08/28/07 @ 8:26 am
News-gal [Member] writes:
Marshall says "I’m not a bad person."
Hey, rapist-liar-Glenn, YES YOU ARE !
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08/28/07 @ 8:33 am
Buzz [Member] writes:
Right-on News-gal. "I'm not a bad person, I just play one on TV".

Peter, once again great job. I think we'll be hearing more of Glenn "Lying Eagle" Marshalls business "affairs" in the coming weeks.
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08/28/07 @ 8:33 am
Shecky [Member] writes:
I thought that after his article Sunday, at least CC Times reporter George Brennan would have the guts to credit cctoday and Peter Kenney for bringing down the tyrant.
Come on, George, you're better than the rest of those wimps, give credit where credit is due - finally.
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08/28/07 @ 8:51 am
capemom [Member] writes:
Buzz--"Lying Eagle"--that's good.
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08/28/07 @ 11:03 am
anon. [Member] writes:
Peter Kenney deserves high praise for his instinct to question Mr. Marshall's claims about his military valor, without a doubt, and Mr. Brennan and the Times deserve a scolding for not giving Mr. Kenney and this site its due.
But given the poor quality of the writing in this post and others on the site, including some by Mr. Kenney--the numerous factual and grammatical errors, the complete lack of transparent sourcing, and the willingness to rely on a single source for a controversial story, in other words, the complete disregard for even the most basic journalistic standards--it is difficult to give too much credit to the self-congratulatory tone of writers and commenters here who have taken to holding this site up as an exemplar of "new media" that might replace the old.
If you want to be the next new best thing, as appears to be the case, you have to take the old thing and do it better in full, not just pick and chose parts of it to replace while sniping blanket criticisms at it all.
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08/28/07 @ 11:13 am
CCToday [Member] writes:
In other words, Peter is right, but you don't like the way he writes about it.
So why don't you get your non-news from whatever non-newspaper you usually don't get the full story from... oops, dangling preposition, better ignore what I wrote !!!
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08/28/07 @ 11:29 am
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Anon

Let me see, you want transparency but you want to comment anonymously...hmmmm.

I agree with some of your thoughts and I am offended by my own poor typing skills. However, it always fascinates me when people in the so-called real press
ask me, "Where did you find that out?" and in so doing, by the way, end a sentence with a preposition.
Last night as I spoke with tribe members when none of the other press could get one word out of them I was struck by the fact that....well, you wouldn't want to hear my untutored impressions.

As for this story, both Walter and Julie were very concerned about proof before they posted the first installment. I satisfied two experienced people who needed to be certain that what I said was true. Recent events and the tidal wave of mainstream press on this situation (without attribution to me) seem to indicate that my claims stood up to scrutiny and that the story was worth telling. What else do you need?

Hell, everyone else even forgot to mention the vote on the shunning. DAHHH!
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08/28/07 @ 11:43 am
capemom [Member] writes:
anon., it seems to me that you are asking the bloggers on this site to conduct themselves professionally, which is basically what we as the public are asking the Wampanoags to do. Fair enough.
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08/28/07 @ 12:07 pm
lmc035@gmail.com [Member] writes:
wow... gotta hand it to Peter and Cape Cod Today for getting this story out.

Talk about getting the scoop...

It is such BS that 'mainstream media' isn't attributing this story to the folks who dug it up.
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08/28/07 @ 12:30 pm
anon. [Member] writes:
I am talking not about the "way he writes about it." My criticisms have nothing to do with style and everything to do with substance. For example, in Mr. Kenney's post from Monday evening, he offers no substantiation for his claim that Mr. Strather is a front for "two South African billionaires" and no explanation that Friendfinder is a company that owns an adult online dating service as well as various other social networking web sites. It is fair to assume the worst, ask questions, and verify that the worst is the case. It is not fair to publish without finding out if there is more to the story.
Likewise, in the report above, it is not made clear that the shunned members were voted back in not by the tribal council but by a group of tribe members meeting on their own initiative. It is not even mentioned that a second meeting took place. The tribal council has not been reorganized. Those are errors that should be corrected.
Again, Mr. Kenney deserves great credit for his sleuth work; Capecodtoday does not for its standards of accuracy and transparency.
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08/28/07 @ 3:17 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Anon

You are partially correct, I did not report that the tribal council has been reorganized, but that it is expected to be. I have more information than what I can print at this time. Also, as for the Friendfinder matter...readers are free to log on themselves and see the many and varied sites operated by this one company's parent and to read for themselves the boast that is the largest on-line site for swingers and sex.

The business about Strather is aggravating. I have reported conversations with tribal spokesman Scott Ferson and his statement that he is being paid by the "investors", that is plural. He told me and I reported that Strather is now a minority investor and that the two South Africans are the principle investors. If you think that Strather was unaware of what Marshall and others have been doing and how they have been spending the investors' money you are simply not understanding what I have written.

AND Shawn Hendricks knew or should have known what was going on. He was on the gravy train, too.
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08/28/07 @ 5:45 pm
excalibur [Member] writes:
I gather from what I've been reading that Peter Kenny is a controversial character with some abrasive personality issues (and -- I am constrained to add -- the single worst on-camera persona I've seen in my half century in the broadcasting industry.
NEVERTHELESS, the guy broke what is the story of the year on the Cape (with regional and even national impact), and no one is giving him credit except CapeCodToday and Media Nation (No offense Walter and Dan, but those two outlets together don't reach the audience of a single MSM outlet. If there are unsupported allegations on Peter's blog, so be it, that's the nature of blogdom; the reader either buys it or doesn't. It's not the responsibility of an aggregator to edit content except for expletives.
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08/28/07 @ 6:15 pm
washiki [Member] writes:
Peter lucked out...pure and simple...the man makes so many half-true statements, yet leaves himself an out in case it doesnt materialize. He is like a broken watch, correct once in a while.
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08/28/07 @ 9:31 pm
Andy Buckley [Member] writes:
In a conversation On WCAI this morning, an editor of the CCTimes (pardon, but I cannot recall his name) stated that it was "our reporter, George Brennan, who broke the story" (my best recollection of the quote).

I suppose, to follow the fashion of the time, which is to parse, what was meant was that Brennan broke the story for the Cape Cod Times. Meaning, he was the first reporter at that particular paper to write about it...

... after having gotten a really big heads-up from Kenney writing on Cape Cod Today, presumably.
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08/29/07 @ 10:04 am
oh the huge manatee! [Member] writes:
Anon, your two posts contradict each other. The first post criticizes Kenney for things that you say in the second don't matter. Your second post says that style doesn't matter, but the facts do. Well, Kenney was the only one to get the facts and dig for the facts. If it is a choice between Kenney's slightly non-professional style and ZERO story from the "mainstream media", I'll take Kenney - thanks. Also, you take CapeCodToday.com to task with several unfair swipes, including
..."Capecodtoday does not for its standards of accuracy and transparency."...
Please look up the definition of "blog". CCToday is not the "publisher" of this story. CCToday is the Commons, the ISP. Kenney is a blogger on CCToday. CCToday does not edit or control Kenney's posts. You need to get some schooling on blogging and "new media" obviously, since you sound like you are talking out your rear. It sounds like you have some axe to grind against CCToday to me. You are critical of CCToday, the ONLY place this story existed. Ok buddy, keep yappin'.
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