A Colorado college reckons with its past — and helps students do the same
Durango's Fort Lewis College was once a boarding school that used severe methods to "civilize" Indigenous children.
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Durango's Fort Lewis College was once a boarding school that used severe methods to "civilize" Indigenous children.
While the charges against Gene Cassano and Gioacchino Galione don't mention the mob, records show the underlying investigation specifically targeted the Chicago Outfit.
The first objection in the recent extortion trial of Addison businessman Gene “Gino” Cassano came about five seconds into opening statements, when a prosecutor mentioned the term “juice loan.” Three days later, the proceedings abruptly ended in a mistrial after an FBI agent testified he was assigned to investigate “organized crime,” a term the judge had explicitly barred to avoid prejudicing ...
A 2023 report by History Colorado found Native boarding schools cut children's hair, renamed them and punished them for speaking Indigenous languages.
A former high-ranking city official was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday for helping to conceal a multiyear embezzlement scheme that led to the failure of Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a family-run institution that had been a mainstay in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood for more than a century. William Mahon, 57, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to falsify bank records ...