The following is Public Auditor Benjamin Cruz’s summary of his office’s audit into the island’s emergency management agency spanning two administrations: The Office of Public Accountability’s (OPA) investigative audit on…
[Editor’s note: Glen Hunter wrote the following letter to the House anti-corruption committee] Members of the CNMI House of Representatives Special Committee on Federal Assistance & Disaster-Related Funding, My name…
Celina Roberto Babauta has started a legislative investigation into evidence-backed suspicion that at least $11 million in federal Treasury funds obligated under former Governor Ralph Torres was misused. The senator,…
Did Ralph Torres’ government give you at least $12,000 (aside from a government paycheck) between October 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022? If not, you are among the 47,000 CNMI…
A legislative tribunal investigating the corruption of the Ralph Torres administration has voted to subpoena former finance secretary David Atalig, Jr., and may soon consider the subpoena of Mr. Torres,…
Here’s the real reason for the pay raises, and the governor’s about-face on who is responsible for spending federal pandemic funds If you wondered why Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero spent…
Audits out of Guam and the CNMI tell stories very different from what Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero, former Gov. Ralph Torres, and former Gov. Eddie Calvo have been saying about…
The public health emergency has been bad for business, shuttering shops, laying off employees, reducing hours, and causing greater homelessness and poverty. But for the bank the governor owns, business…
The Guam Bureau of Women’s Affairs received federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money , according to Sen. Telo Taitague. The republican lawmaker and former director of women’s affairs under…
Guam businesses were among the top-paid vendors of federal pandemic funds in the CNMI. A document listing purchase orders the Torres administration awarded from March 25, 2020 to September 22,…
