The street sign for East Ross Allen Lake Lane earlier this year in Lac du Flambeau, Wis. (Angela Major/Wisconsin Public Radio)

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says the U.S. Department of Justice should investigate the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for charging the Town of Lac du Flambeau hundreds of thousands of dollars to use roads crossing reservation land.

In a letter sent Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Tiffany also asked the DOJ to get the tribe to repay the town more than $600,000.

Tiffany, from Minocqua, referenced a prolonged legal battle between the Lac du Flambeau band, town officials and nontribal homeowners dating back to late January 2023. That’s when the tribe barricaded four roads crossing reservation land after negotiations over easement pay

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