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(sacbee.com) ALTURAS - Calvin Phelps, a white cigarette manufacturer from North Carolina, seems an unlikely candidate for membership in a California Indian tribe. He even served as vice-chairman.
Phelps is serving a 40-month federal prison term for fraud. But that hasn’t kept him from voting via email in a tribal government election for the tiny Alturas Rancheria in Modoc County, which operates the Desert Rose Casino. ... In an interview from prison in West Virginia, Phelps, 53, said he’s proud to belong to Alturas Rancheria, which still pays him $5,000 a month, plus health care for his wife and two kids. Continued
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