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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2002

Attorneys for 500,000 Indian beneficiaries on Monday said they no longer needed to question outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on his destruction of e-mail.

Attorney Dennis Gingold was set to depose McCaleb on Wednesday. In a letter, he informed special master Alan Balaran, a court investigator, that he would not go forward.

McCaleb testified before Balaran on December 6. He admitted he erased his e-mails but said he didn't intentionally set out to "destroy" them.

Relevant Links:
Indian Trust, Department of Interior - http://www.doi.gov/indiantrust
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton - http://www.indiantrust.com
Cobell v. Norton, Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htm
Trust Reform, NCAI - http://www.ncai.org/main/pages/
issues/other_issues/trust_reform.asp

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