BOSTON – Former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe chairman Cedric Cromwell has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on federal charges of tax fraud and extortion.
Cromwell was sentenced in federal court last Wednesday. The case was connected to alleged dealings during the First Light Resort and Casino project in Taunton while Cromwell was the chairman in the 2010s.
A judge also ordered restitution to be paid over a quarter-million dollars…