Joey Patrick “JP” San Nicolas has returned to the Office of the Attorney General of Guam as a prosecutor, after having spent the past 12 years in the CNMI as a defense attorney, attorney general of the Commonwealth, and the mayor of Tinian.
Mr. San Nicolas brings to the OAG his multidisciplinary experience with both criminal and civil law, probate, real estate, and corporate law.
“We have many new attorneys coming in,” Douglas Moylan, the attorney general, confirmed. “[Mr. San Nicolas] is one of many and a new breed of prosecutors and attorneys I have been personally interviewing and hiring.”
In 2012 Mr. San Nicolas became the attorney general of the CNMI after Edward Buckingham fled Saipan on August 4 that year in order to avoid prosecution for misconduct and corruption.
Two years later he ran for mayor of Tinian, won the election, and served a full term before choosing to return to private practice in January 2019 in Saipan.
Months after federal raids at the legal offices of Imperial Pacific International, CNMI LLC, Mr. San Nicolas accepted the post of general counsel for IPI, replacing Phillip Tydingco. He resigned shortly after.
He graduated in 2003 from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.
