Eight months after stepping down from her position as a Six Nations band councillor, Glenda Porter has been charged with misappropriating funds from three community organizations.
Porter, a respected and longtime politician on the reserve, was arrested Feb. 4 and charged with 72 counts of theft, fraud, forgery and uttering forged documents. She was released on a promise to appear in court on March 13.
The charges relate to Porter's work with the Six Nations Agricultural Society, the Six Nations Skating Club and the Six Nations Historical Society. Porter was a mainstay in the groups, particularly the skating club.
During her band council tenure, Porter held the lands and membership portfolio, the education portfolio and, for a time, sat on the gaming commission that oversaw the local bingo hall.
It was the gaming commission that turned up inconsistencies in the books of several of the groups that Porter represented.