...problems with a trust handling hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from Indian land. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth called the department's handling of the Indian money and the action of government attorneys in the case disgraceful...

...intentional wrongdoing is borne out by the record," said the report, unsealed Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. Dennis Gingold, the attorney representing thousands of American Indian plaintiffs in the class-action suit over...

...over mismanagement of a $500 million system of trust accounts for about 500,000 Indians. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth held Babbitt and other officials in contempt of court last year for their agencies' failures to keep and turn over...

...a letter to a court-appointed investigator overseeing documents in the case. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth accused Treasury Department lawyers of lying to him about trust fund records and released a report by the investigator...

...Virginia Apuzzo, the former assistant to the president for management and administration. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said Friday he will hear testimony in the case from Ruff on Monday. The judge did not say whether Apuzzo would testify...

...from usage of Indian lands. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the 1999 ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who called mismanagement of the accounts "fiscal and governmental irresponsibility in its purest form." He ordered...

...regions, it could take at least a decade -- and possibly as much as 40 years -- to get the necessary data in order, court monitor Joseph S. Kieffer III said in his report filed with U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth late Friday.