Swindlers Ordered To Pay Native American Center

PORT ORCHARD — Two men posing as Native American jewelry artists collecting scrap metal for a Cherokee Nation program pleaded guilty Thursday to felony impersonation charges for hustling a Bremerton boat maker in 2013 and pledged to donate $100,000 to a Native American cultural center in Chicago.

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