The Jamul Tribe of Southern California is denying allegations that the casino it is building, the 0 million Hollywood Casino Jamul, has violated any unmarked tribal graves.
Two members of the tribe have accused Jamul of putting a parking structure over the gravesite.
Tribal Chairman Raymond Hunter told reporters, “These most recent lies and accusations are nothing more than a desperate attempt to stop us from moving forward with our project. Those tactics have not been successful in the past, and they will not succeed now.”
He added. “For these people to claim we have excavated soil of the cemetery and removed our family members from their final resting place is an outrageous lie,”
One of those making the accusation, Karen Toggery, said “Their motto is, well, they’re gone so that’s it.”
There is a tribal cemetery, but it is on the opposite end of the reservation.
The attorney for the two accusers, Patrick Webb, told Judge Prager, “They all want to talk about what’s the cemetery and what’s not the cemetery. That’s really irrelevant. The only evidence you have in front of you is eyewitness testimony from the people who put their families there. And where they are now? No one is contesting it.”
