PLEASANT POINT, Maine (AP) – The finance director of a tribal reservation in Maine was fired after leaders discovered that he wasn’t who he said he was and had pleaded guilty to embezzling $2.66 million from a South Dakota college.

Passamaquoddy Tribe leaders said the man they hired in the spring to oversee an $11 million budget at the Pleasant Point Reservation gave his name as Charles Fourcloud. It turned out his real name was Arlynn Knudsen, and that he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in 1998 after pleading guilty to embezzling from Oglala Lakota College.

Fourcloud was fired from his job late last month, a day after police arrested him in the tribal government’s parking lot on a charge of driving under a suspended California license.

Chief Clayton Cleaves told the Portland Press Herald that tribal officials are investigating their finances for the four months Fourcloud was in charge, but that there are no early indications of wrongdoing.

“We don’t yet know at this point, but the investigation is ongoing and we have appropriate people probing our records just to see if anything was transferred, withdrawn or misappropriated without the consent of out tribal government,” Cleaves said.

Fourcloud’s attorney had no comment on his client’s past.

Cleaves said tribal officials checked Fourcloud’s references before hiring him but did not do a criminal background check. When they checked with references, they heard glowing reviews, he said.

“Everything came back positive,” Cleaves said. “Of course we don’t know who we were talking to. It could have been a partner in crime.”

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Information from: Portland Press Herald, http://www.pressherald.com