Commonwealth Utilities Commission acting executive director Dallas Peavey, Jr.’s ex-bosses, the Holley-Navarre Water System board of directors, voted unanimously last week to take a deeper dive into a recently-released audit finding he allegedly misspent about $1.2 million.
Mr. Peavey was CEO of the HNWS until August 2022, when the board fired him after finding out about his undisclosed criminal history. It is unclear whether CUC’s former executive director Gary Camacho or commissioners themselves were aware of both Mr. Peavey’s criminal past and extensive history of controversy and alleged scandal in the several places he has worked.
Kandit has sent the CUC an Open Government Act request for Mr. Peavey’s submitted resume and application packet.
According to both an article by Gail Acosta from the Navarre Press and the video recording of an April 18, 2023 meeting of the HNWS board, independent auditors presented findings of an audit showing Mr. Peavey allegedly made purchases that far exceeded his financial authority as CEO of the water system. That authority limit was only $25,000 without board approval.
Water System audit reveals unauthorized purchases by former CEO
According to the audit presentation, Mr. Peavey entered into two contracts for leased equipment for the Club at Hidden Creek and a new commercial vehicle for HNWS. Those contracts totaled $450,000 and $475,000 respectively. The audit presentation further revealed about $225,000 of golf course expenses, according to Ms. Acosta’s story.
The HNWS’s new CEO, Jeff Crigler, sought and received unanimous approval from the board to spend nearly $40,000 to take a closer look at six months’s worth of transactions under Mr. Peavey’s watch.
Mr. Peavey left Florida to work for CUC in Saipan. Since then, the Torres administration expired, and so did the contract with former executive director Gary Camacho. The CUC in February elevated Mr. Peavey as acting executive director in Mr. Camacho’s place.
Mr. Peavey recently found himself at the center of controversy last week, when he issued simultaneous disconnection notices to the CNMI Department of Public Works and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, which runs the hospital in Saipan and the two clinics, each in Rota and Tinian.
The CNMI and Florida are not the only places Mr. Peavey has worked for which several public reports allege misconduct and scandal. Stay tuned to Kandit for more.
5 Comments
FABIAN M INDALECIO
04/24/2023 at 3:15 PM
OOOPS to the people of the CNMI…lol. Who do we have for a potential candidate for CUC Executive Director? I’m concern and I hope the CUC Board of Directors will also do their own investigation if they will consider him as potential director. We have enough issues with our Utility cost and all. I say NO to Peavy for the Executive Director of our only Island Water and Electric power supplies.
Saipan Patriot
05/03/2023 at 6:50 AM
And of course, you have proof against this guy-an idiot like you-can’t even hold a conversation without cursing! You’re an idiot, and a bully-which is a coward because you write and don’t confront anyone!
Mabel Doge Luhan
04/24/2023 at 5:02 PM
Felonious Monk is gone, but have we learned anything? Why were an amateur blog and a 144-year-old busybody able to discover in a few minutes what had eluded all of CUC’s “leadership,” as well as the CNMI Government and the two “professional” newspapers, for many months? Why was everyone tripping over themselves calling this guy Doctor without doing a basic check of that claim? (Hint: He’s not the only person in Saipan with a fake PhD.) And will we ever discover what this guy was really up to at CUC, or will it be swept under the rug to avoid embarrassment?
Russ Mason
04/25/2023 at 10:40 AM
Which is worse: to be gullible or incompetent?
Saipan has plenty of each, and few care.
“It’s the Island way!”
Saipan Patriot
05/03/2023 at 6:48 AM
And you base “YOUR” claim on what? Hearsay? “WE” checked him out-was is with the FBI collecting information on the crookedness at CUC and Administration! Just like he did at previous challenges for the FBI and CIA in Florida and Africa! Now you think your smarter than the US Government placing a guy there and getting information on all the federal monies being wasted?