 While the tribe maintains nothing illegal was done, the leader of the corporation, Scott Tucker was sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison and his company and others involved were ordered to pay $1.3 billion by the Federal Trade Commission.Today the tribe now independently engages in "payday lending" on a far smaller scale as a source of revenue.The ancestral home of the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma consisted of some 5,000 square miles along what is now the California-Oregon border.