Friday, October 19, 2001 11:09 AM

WEB ALERT

We have just posted at www.indiantrust.com a Supplemental Report by the 
Court Monitor to Judge Lamberth, released today.

Based on a recent memo from Special Trustee Tom Slonaker to Court 
Monitor Joseph S. Kieffer III, Kieffer concludes that lawyers from the 
Justice and Interior Departments played a key role in the filing of 
false reports to Judge Lamberth about the alleged progress of trust 
reform.

According to documents supplied by Slonaker, lawyers at Justice needed 
Slonaker to "verify" that the reports were true because it would "cover 
their behinds" with the Court.

According to today's Kieffer report, "These documents cast doubt on the 
verification process used by DOJ in submitting the Quarterly Reports 
[on trust reform] to this Court. The blame for the inadequacy of those 
Reports.must be laid not only at the feet of the Interior defendants 
but also DOJ."