COLUMBUS, OH Timothy L. Miller, of Gahanna, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of wire fraud and two counts of filing a false income tax return. Miller was charged by Bill of Information on April 26, 2021.
According to court documents, from July 2015 through December 2017 Miller was president of Big Drum USA LTD, an ice cream manufacturer located in Columbus, Ohio. Miller fraudulently withdrew $1,797,127.49 from a Big Drum bank account. The withdrawals consisted of the purchase of cashier s checks made payable directly to casinos, debit card transactions involving hotels and casinos, and cash withdrawals in Ohio, Nevada, Utah, Iowa, Pennsylvania, California, and Ontario, Canada. Miller concealed his actions by logging the transactions as petty cash or loans in the ledgers of Big Drum.
‘Kill the Indian, save the man’: Stories of Indian boarding schools still echo
Monday, January 18, 2021
Gaylord News
WASHINGTON – About 180 white tombstones – each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School – stand row-by-row in the dewy grass of central Pennsylvania, bearing the names of those who died while being forced to learn the white man’s way.
From 1,500 to 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the Carlisle school, said Jim Gerenscer, co-director of the Carlisle Indian School Project, a database that provides information about the school and the students who attended. But some never made it back home, dying from unknown causes at Carlisle.
By Addison Kliewer, Miranda Mahmud and Brooklyn Wayland/Gaylord News
Jan. 14, 2021
Recent arrivals at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose with upperclassmen. About 8,000 students attended the school before it closed in 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
Rose White Thunder, a Sioux student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1883, was one of the only women photographed to demonstrate the transformation of Native students before and after attending the school. (Photos courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
Tom Torlino, a Navajo student who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1882, poses for “before” and “after” photos, which were used to promote the boarding school to tribes around the country. (Photos courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)