Opinion ID: 2972844
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: NAICC’s involvement

Text: The management of Myers Lake then turned to the North American Indian Cultural Center (NAICC), another tax-exempt organization. In the spring of 1999, Chester Simons had recruited NAICC to become the designated charity for Route 91 Instant Bingo, another gambling store, and had attempted to open a third NAICC instant bingo store in Youngstown. During the summer of 1999, V. Lanna Samaniego, who became Executive Director of NAICC in June of 1999, discovered that NAICC’s name was being used at three instant bingo locations. She also found that checks were being written from a checking account shared by NAICC and Chester Simons for the purchase of gambling machines and for rent at the Myers Lake location. In addition to the Myers Lake rental checks, which were made out to a company owned by Donal Bush, additional checks were made out to East Financial, which is owned by Chad Bush. NAICC terminated its relationship with all of the gambling stores in October of 1999.