WHO: Montana state Legislature
WHAT: After the Little Shell tribe of Chippewa Indians apparently used a $180,000 annual tobacco prevention grant for unrelated purposes — including travel expenses, tribal elections and a newsletter — the state is likely to give it a huge $617,000 stimulus grant anyway, provided that the tribe change its lax accounting procedures.
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