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Indian Country Today Media Network
First they were abused at residential school. Then they were each charged thousands in fees by the very attorney who was supposed to help them obtain redress.
Fifty-five residential school survivors in Manitoba are getting their due, reimbursed for a total of nearly $1 million in fees that Howard Tennenhouse charged them collectively for negotiating their compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Tennenhouse was disbarred on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to charging the survivors $932,501.80 as fees, APTN reported. This was in addition to the 15 percent that the government pays attorneys on each settled claim, and should only have been levied if approved by an adjudicator, according to CBC News.
He was allegedly using the money to buy foreign real estate, APTN said.
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