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tional cases have been reviewed.
• "We're really taking a close look at each file. We're reaching out to potential witness, people who might know something when appropriate, and really taking them one by one. To give these cases a fair review, the challenge is that it takes a long time," he said.
• Johnson said he has reached out to the tribe and would welcome the involvement of Tatewin Means, the tribe's attorney general. The tribe could not immediately locate a phone number for Means when asked by the AP on Wednesday.
• Among the people hoping to get more information from the review is the tribe's vice president, Tom Poor Bear. His brother, Wilson Black Elk, and cousin, Ron Hard Heart, were found in 1999 on reservation land. The deaths remain unsolved.
• Poor Bear did not return a phone message seeking comment Wednesday. He previously told the AP that he would like a special team of investigators other than the FBI to come to the reservation to investigate the deaths.
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• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Two KPMG auditors are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to find problems at TierOne Bank before it failed in 2010 after concealing real estate losses.
• The SEC filed administrative charges against KPMG's John J. Aesoph of Omaha and Darren M. Bennett of Elkhorn.
• KPMG spokesman Tim Connolly says the two look forward to defending their work and presenting facts about the circumstances they faced at TierOne.
• The SEC says the two auditors didn't do enough to challenge TierOne's estimates of the value of real estate that the bank had loans on or had repossessed. The Lincoln, Neb.-based bank understated its losses by millions of dollars in 2008 and 2009.
• Federal regulators closed TierOne in June 2010 and sold its assets to Great Western Bank.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota couple is facing charges in South Dakota for an alleged building scam.
• South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says 45-year-old George Nelson III and Karla Nelson of Fargo are charged with felony grand theft by deception. They allegedly sold metal buildings that were never constructed.

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