The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah has filed suit accusing a group that calls itself the Uinta Valley Shoshone Tribe (UVST) of selling fake licenses that purport to allow hunting and fishing on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court, is seeking a declaration that UVST and its officers are engaging in wire fraud, as well as an order barring them from issuing the licenses. In addition, the suit asks that already-issued licenses be declared void.
“The Ute Tribe is the only tribal entity authorized to issue hunting and fishing licenses within the reservation,” a news release from the U.