Cedric Cromwell

Former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe chair Cedric Cromwell was sentenced to 42 months in prison for extortion tied to the First Light Resort & Casino and failing to report six-figure tax income.

Prosecutors said Cromwell solicited improper gifts from the head of a Rhode Island architectural firm, RGB Architects, to protect a billion-dollar contract for a tribal casino

Taunton Mayor Shaunna O'Connell says the tribe owes the city millions of dollars from a host agreement the two sides negotiated long before she became mayor.

The government says between 2014 and 2017, Cedric Cromwell failed to report over $177,000 he allegedly received in connection with the Taunton casino project.

Cromwell and the owner of an architecture firm were arrested Friday morning and due in federal court.

An appeals court judge ruled that the Trump administration in 2018 abused its discretion in stripping the tribe of its reservation lands.

The order by U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer gives the Tribe the benefit of a legal forum to advance its argument that the Interior was unlawful.

BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts tribe says it hopes to resume construction on a $1 billion casino in Taunton this summer. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe said Friday it was encouraged by word that the U.S. Department of Interior plans to issue a new decision by mid-June on the tribe's land status...

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has planned an April groundbreaking for a resort casino south of Boston. The federally recognized tribe announced Monday it has picked three firms to start demolition and site work for the casino to start April 5...

The federal government has placed Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in trust as a reservation, paving the way for the Cape Cod tribe to begin construction of a casino in Taunton. The U.S. Department of Interior's designation was published in the federal register on Friday, less than two months after the Wampanoags transferred formal ownership of approximately 321 acres of lands in Mashpee and Taunton