A February 2023 decision by the CNMI finance secretary, Tracy Norita, to direct the Bank of Saipan to stop payments in the corrupt Torres-era BOOST grant program scandal saved the…
Gov. Arnold Palacios and the new majority in the Commonwealth Legislature are working miracles to keep the CNMI government from going under. Austerity is on the horizon for many, while…
Curious how more than $1 billion in federal pandemic funds has vanished in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and why – after years of former Gov. Ralph Torres…
Curious how more than $1 billion in federal pandemic funds has vanished in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and why – after years of former Gov. Ralph Torres…
Despite Wil Castro’s sworn testimony before the CNMI House of Representatives to the contrary, officials from the Guam Economic Development Authority confirm and have provided evidence that the Torres administration…
Sources close to the Commonwealth government are confirming CNMI Attorney General Edward Manibusan last week met with U.S. Attorney Shawn Anderson about allegations of corruption by former Gov. Ralph Torres…
I concur wholeheartedly with the Joint Committee’s recommendation that further legislative investigation into the BOOST program is needed, and should continue in the 23rd legislature. Even with the thousands of…
Senator Paul A. Manglona of Rota introduced a resolution in the new Commonwealth Senate to ask the U.S. Department of the Treasury to investigate former Gov. Ralph Torres’s use of…
BOOST Connects: Senate president’s family, top campaign official get BOOSTed Senate president Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian) told senators in the closing session of the 22nd Commonwealth Senate that he is disappointed…
It was a republican grab for cash in Tinian both before and after the elections, according to a closer look into the BOOST program list of awardees by the Bank…
