By james art 
North Dakota’s chosen leader in North Dakota has bought a high quality Las Vegas house, showing that ownership records after his government have been confronted with criticism at home to spend more than $ 100 million in land along the strip.
Mark Fox, chairman of the three associated tribes of Fort Bertold’s Indian reservation, purchased a two -storey home in the Levlin Community in Las Vegas for $ 843,000 in the fall of 2023, according to Clark County ownership.
A record of the Council of the Council leading, it raises the prospect that the tribal government has helped to finance the purchase. It also seems that the Council is publicly voting for key elements of the deal after the chairman has already taken over ownership of the House.
The Fox House, near the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and the Desert Foot, was built in 2005 and covers more than 2500 square feet.
The house comes with a new flooring, a bar and a pool area and a hot tub, according to the list. It also has a balcony overlooking the mountains and ribbons and gourmet kitchens with countertops with black-granite and back on a marble tile.
“No expenses spared by this compulsory property!” The announced ad.
As can be seen from the act that recorded the sale with the county, the buyer was Mark Fox and his postal address is the same as the administrative office of the three related tribes in North Dakota.
Fox paid far over what a typical buyer spends on a house in Las Vegas. During the month of purchase, the average sale price of homes previously owned was a single-family homes in South Nevada, was $ 450,000, Trade Group Las Vegas RealTors reports.
Seller Teresa McCormick told Las Vegas Review-Journal that she met Fox, describing him as a “really enjoyable person.” She refused to say how he paid for the house.
The review review has repeatedly tried to interview Fox for this story and sent him a few questions. He has never reacted directly to the newspaper.
In a statement made on Monday by an external communication company, Fox said he had purchased his home in Las Vegas according to the mortgage program of the tribes, which is open to all tribes, including him.
“I pay for home with my own money and I’m current on my loan obligation,” Fox said. “The bottom line is that I do not treat any other tribal member differently and I am in full accordance with what is required of me.”
Large costs for the tape
The three associated tribes – also known as Mandan, Hidaca and Arikara Nation, or MHA Nation – have purchased 23 acres along the southern edge of the Las Vegas strip for $ 115 million in recent years. The tribal government has gained distribution without specific plans for the sites or public votes for the bigger part of the costs.
In 2019, the year before the MHA Nation began buying real estate in Las Vegas, a member of its tribal council, outlines billions of dollars of costs, which relate to Congress, which range from health care and housing to road construction and law enforcement.
At a protest in North Dakota in 2023, a woman was holding a sign that announced: “There is no more reservation costs !!” And “Build our future here !! : “There are no lost mischievous Vegas for people’s money!”
“Our tribal leadership has no business that buys land in Las Vegas when we don’t care about our people at home,” Carol said a good bear, who runs unsuccessfully in 2022 to cancel Fox, told Review earlier to Review -Journal.
Fox has declared the economic opportunities that come with the ownership of the casino capital in America – a lucrative but cruel competitive market for tourism – and said that the options of the tribes include the development of a resort or transfer of the land to the new owners.
He also said that the tribal management is investing to generate returns, helping them to fund new facilities and services.
“What we did in Las Vegas is right,” Fox said earlier.
He also continued to buy a house in a closed community in the suburbs – a home that, according to the list, comes with a design choice from the top down.
Tribal mortgage
According to MHA Nation’s mortgage program, the tribal government usually buys a home and enters a payment plan with a tribal citizen. When the loan is repaid, the home is transferred to the borrower, Fox told the review earlier.
The program currently serves about 450 MHA members, and 230 of which are outside the reservation limits, including in other states, according to the credit manager of the Valerie Mayer mortgage program.
The purchase of FOX in Las Vegas is closed in November 2023, according to real estate records. The next month, at a meeting of the governing body of MHA Nation, the tribal Business Council, the proposal states that the mortgage program approved a borrower designated only as Mark Fox for the purchase of a home and that “has provided a significant deposit and advance payment” S
The home was in Las Vegas, according to a proposal that did not reveal the address, sale price or amount of the FOX deposit or advance payment.
But the proposal allowed the purchase of the house on behalf of Fox, and this indicated that after the transaction, it would transfer the ownership of the three connected tribes.
The proposal passed, with the chairman refraining, according to the protocols of the meetings published on the website of the Government of the tribe.
Fox still owns the house in his name, Clark County records show.
Also, at a meeting of the tribal Business Council in February 2024, the Council took a proposal, named the title company that would handle the purchase of a home in Las Vegas for the borrower again, identified only as Mark Fox.
The chairman of MHA Nation has the power to sign all documents for the acquisition of homes through his mortgage program. At the February meeting, the proposal requires an exception to the program policies and procedures when providing two other MHA employees to execute all final documents on behalf of FOX for the purchase in Las Vegas.
The proposal was unanimously approved, with the chairman voting yes, the meeting of the protocols.
Las Vegas Holdings
MHA Nation, which runs a 4 -tribal reserve casino casino, entered Las Vegas in 2020 with the purchase of $ 12 million from 8.7 acres of dirt through a bankruptcy case.
At that time, Fox said he had watched activity in Las Vegas for years.
In 2022, the tribal government expanded its possessions here when it bought 13.3 decares from the neighboring former harvest site on Road 91 – the scene of the most deadly mass shooting in modern US – for nearly $ 93 million from a casino giant MGM Resorts International.
The tribal leaders said that they had all over the heart, supported a proposed memorial site for the attack on October 1, 2017, being aside for two decares separated by MGM.
MHA Nation then bought the white sand motel website-a 1.1 decare-surrounded plot, surrounded by three countries from the former property on a 91-dollar road in the spring of 2023 in a sample case.
The Clark County Construction Division has issued a December violation notice after the border structure of the white sands has been demolished with a destruction permission, records show.
The county employees were not aware of the situation until the review path asked about it, as the newspaper could not find an application for an application for a permit for demolition or a destruction permit for the clean site.
Earlier, FOX told the list of the list that a local licensed contractor was responsible for acquiring approved permits and was “aimed at correcting the situation as part of their contract requirements”.
He did not answer questions which contractor was hired to demolish the building or when exactly the structure was demolished.
Contact Eli Segall at [email protected] or 702-383-0342.