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category: PROMIS Scandal
summary: Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut
  Joint Venture.
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
---

[Arthur Welmas](/people/arthur-welmas/) was the Tribal Chairman of the [Cabazon Indian Reservation](/places/cabazon-indian-reservation/). He signed a letter on behalf of [Jimmy Hughes](/people/jimmy-hughes/) to the Army Discharge Review Board, requesting Hughes' military record to obtain security clearances for his work in the [Cabazon](/places/cabazon-indian-reservation/)/[Wackenhut Corporation](/organizations/wackenhut-corporation/) Joint Venture.[^1]

[Robert Chasen](/people/robert-chasen/), Executive Vice President of [Wackenhut Corporation](/organizations/wackenhut-corporation/), felt an affinity with Welmas due to his wife being part Cherokee. Chasen sympathized with the Cabazons' situation and expressed a desire to protect them, suggesting he may have done so by shutting down the [Wackenhut Corporation](/organizations/wackenhut-corporation/)'s biological virus and vaccine development proposal to the Army on the Cabazon reservation.[^1]

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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.