OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The former chairman of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has been given two years of probation in connection with the theft of money from the tribe.

The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that 54-year-old Amen Sheridan, of Walthill, was sentenced on Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. He’d pleaded guilty to one count of being an accessory after the fact.

Court documents say Sheridan knew that Julia Whiteskunk had illegally used tribal funds for a down payment on the house they bought in 2009 and had helped her in order to prevent her arrest.

Whiteskunk was executive director of the tribal housing authority. She was charged in the scheme, but she died in September 2014.

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Information from: Sioux City Journal, http://www.siouxcityjournal.com