The former finance director for the Passamaquoddy Tribe, who was fired in 2013 for lying about his identity, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 18 months in prison.

Charles Fourcloud, 59, who has been in federal custody since April, was also ordered to pay $22,571 in restitution to the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Fourcloud pleaded guilty in June to stealing more than $20,000 from the eastern Maine tribe.

Fourcloud was arrested April 25 in northern California after federal authorities in Maine obtained a warrant charging him with one count of theft from an Indian tribal government and three counts of embezzlement from an Indian tribal organization. Fourcloud was fired as finance director of the Passamaquoddy’s Pleasant Point reservation government in September 2013 after tribal police discovered he was in fact Arlynn Knudsen.

In 1997, Fourcloud, who was using the Knudsen alias, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and – with four others – embezzlement of $2.66 million from a Lakota Sioux college in South Dakota.

After he serves his prison term, Fourcloud will be placed on supervised release for three years.

Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:

dhoey@pressherald.com

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