http://www.sitnews.us/0817News/082917/082917_big_game_hunt_charges.html
August 29, 2017
Tuesday PM
(SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska – Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned an indictment charging Jeffrey Harris, 44, from Poulsbo, WA, Dale Lackner, 72, from Haines, AK, and Casey Richardson, 47, from Huson, MT, with conspiring to provide illegal hunts for Dall Sheep, creating false records, and making false statements to federal agents in order to conceal the illegality of the hunts.
Charges were also filed for illegally baiting game, and using xylitol, a substance toxic to wolves and coyotes, for predator control. All of the hunts occurred at the Ptarmigan Lake Lodge in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
According to the indictment, Ptarmigan Lake Lodge (PLL) was permitted to operate as a concessionaire to provide sport hunting guide services within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The indictment alleges that, during the 2014 and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
“An indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
It shows that there is enough evidence against these scumbags to proceed to a trial. I wouldn’t say they were innocent.
From a legal dictionary:
indictment
n. a charge of a felony (serious crime) voted by a Grand Jury based upon a proposed charge, witnesses’ testimony and other evidence presented by the public prosecutor (District Attorney). <bTo bring an indictment the Grand Jury will not find guilt, but only the probability that a crime was committed, that the accused person did it and that he/she should be tried. District Attorneys often only introduce key facts sufficient to show the probability, both to save time and to avoid revealing all the evidence.
They are having their right to due process observed.
I would say they haven’t been found guilty yet. 🙂
It is all about money. Greed always leads to crimes of any form.
Yes, and willful naivete that doesn’t reflect reality, but an idealized view of how we wish humanity were, does nothing to help, and allows this kind of behavior to continue. There comes a time when the willfully naïve are just as culpable as the perpetrators. In their own way, they are agreeing that humans and their activities are more important than any other life on the planet.