The Miccosukee Indians are suing a veteran accountant they fired last month, saying she helped former tribal chairman Billy Cypress disguise millions of dollars in personal expenses and more than $10 million in unauthorized legal fees as sanctioned "loans" and "receivables."

The suit comes barely two weeks after former Miccosukee senior accountant Jodi Goldenberg swore in a deposition that she believed tribal attorney Bernardo Roman III wanted her to lie in the tribe’s malpractice suit against Miami law firm Lewis Tein.

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