Ex-Mashpee Wampanoag leader facing sentencing

BOSTON—The former leader of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe who has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and embezzlement charges is scheduled to be sentenced in Massachusetts.

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel in Boston is slated to sentence Glenn Marshall on Thursday.

The 59-year-old Falmouth resident admitted in Feburary to making illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress, embezzling tribal funds, wire fraud, filing false tax returns and fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits.

According to the initial plea agreement, Marshall faces 46 to 57 months in prison.

Marshall stepped down as tribal council chairman in 2007, after it became public that he was a convicted rapist and had lied about his military past.