First, there was an armed standoff outside the Rolling Hills Casino near Corning. Then a fight in federal court over control of a Northern California Indian tribe and its casino, followed by a mysterious cyberattack that destroyed some of the casino’s records.
Now, a lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento on Tuesday alleges that a faction that once controlled the tribe engaged in a “12-year looting spree” that cost members of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians tens of millions of dollars that went to pay for “absurdly luxurious lifestyles of private jet travel, luxury homes, high-end vacations, custom sports cars and high-profile sporting events.”