Topeka — Three former Kickapoo Tribe leaders have been charged in tribal court with misusing federal dollars.

Former tribal council chairman Steve Cadue, tribal treasurer Bobbi Darnell and secretary Adolph Cadue Jr. also were charged Monday in the Kickapoo court in Horton with fraudulent handling of recordable instruments and tampering with records. None of them had listed numbers.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the complaints allege that the three used federal burial funds to subsidize payroll and other tribal expenses in violation of tribal law. Kickapoo Tribal Special Prosecutor Tom Lemon alleges that the former leaders modified tribal resolutions and produced fraudulent documents to cover up the misspent money.

It is unclear from the court filings how much of the burial funds were misspent.