The 26 bribery counts, six counts of filing false income tax returns, and single count of conspiracy with which the federal government has charged Soboba Tribal Chairman Robert Salgado carry a combined maximum sentence of 363 years.

The 67-year-old Salgado is accused in a federal indictment filed last week with either de-manding bribes or accepting offers of bribes from four companies that provided services to the tribe over a period of nearly a decade.

The value of the bribes is $250,000, according to the grand jury accusations.

They include money paid directly to him, paying off credit card and other debt run up by him or his wife, and payments to a company he owned, according to the indictment.

Salgado surrendered to FBI agents at the federal courthouse in Riverside and was arraigned last Friday.

He was released on $150,000 bail.

Mike Hiles, the tribal liaison, said Thursday the tribe had no comment on the allegations.

A preliminary hearing could be held as early as next month.

Although only one of the four vendors accused of conspiring with Salgado on the bribes was named, the indictment said Salgado took money for directing real estate deals, construction projects, and service contracts at the casino the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians operates on its reservation and at other reservation locations to them in exchange for cash.

The one vendor that was identified is Abbas Shilleh, owner of California Parking Services Inc., which provides valet parking at the casino.

He is accused of providing almost half the bribe amount, about $107,000.

According to the indictment, he paid Salgado cash and checks ranging from $2,500 to $35,000 at a time.

Shilleh, 46, of Diamond Bar, surrendered to federal agents Monday.

The earliest bribe cited in the indictment was a $1,000 payment in 1999 to a company Salgado set up.

The company is called R.J.’s Wood Service and R.J. Woods Services in the indictment.

The indictment does not specify what the bribe was for or who received it.

The same vendor is said to have given Salgado $17,000 in two checks payable to R.J. Woods Services in 2003, $5,000 to the same company again in 2003, and another $3,000 to the company in 2005.

Another unnamed vendor is said to have paid $14,000 in two checks for personal bills, $17,000 for bills owed by his wife, and $15,000 in payment directly to Salgado in 2006.

The indictment does not say what the payments were for, but another $28,400 worth of bills owed by Salgado’s wife was paid by the vendor and another $5,000 payment was made to Salgado directly in 2007.

All together, the vendor was accused of making about $140,000 in bribes.

The indictment includes 29 counts of bribery totaling just over $250,000.

Salgado is also charged with filing false tax returns in 2001 through 2006, by understating his income.

The income the indictment Salgado claimed on his tax returns ranges from $141,125 to $280,770.

The conspiracy allegation was for conspiring with the vendors about the bribes.

What makes the accusations a federal case is that, under federal law, taking a bribe is illegal for an official on a reservation that receives $10,000 or more in grants or other federal assistance in a year.