OI?A Audit Bares 'Unethical Transactions' at Ports Agency
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If they don't want to listen decided to leave the government, for Camacho's retirement. to me-if they don't retire, I'll Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio said he "Not that I know of (if there's make sure they retire." doesn't know himself. any policy disagreement between Due to its timing, Camacho's "Why don't you ask him? I like him and Camacho). But, maybe. decision to retire is considered by to know myself," he said. "If I Why don't you ask him," he said. some as "absurd." Government employees usually ;\ On CNMI delegate issue: retire at the end of the year to maximize retirement benefits. ~Manglona asks Congress , Camacho, according to uncon- Continued on page 54 f'not to listen·to gover.nor'f Frank Camacho I I ~ Despite; that is, the opposition j 1-. of Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio. I ij In an interview yesterday, the ~ OI?A audit bares 'unethical 1 a • Senate's consultant on CNMI- ij i.l : . federal relations said he wm ten t • Congress to "listen to the ~ transactions' at ports agency · people's will" regardless of who ~ By-Mar-Vic C. Munar outstanding agricultural permits. director was the one actually is against it. :i Variety News.Staff . '.'The permits apd leases were . using the property," the teport ''The people have spoken and I ·so ME port officials and their approved during the terms of of said. even a governor is not above the ~ relatives u·sed Commonwealth fice of the board members and Although the official~ were people who put him into office,"~ · Ports Authority properties for • officials _in qu·estion," LaMotte not explicitly named in the Manglona said. I residential and oilier purposes stated in the report. • audit, a CPA source-told .the· The CNMI people and their ~ net related to the agency's op It was found that a fom1er board Variety that the fonner board legislators, he added, have ~l- 1 erations, an audit report says.· member approved tl)e agricultural .chairman and former execu.: ways favored representation in j Publjc· Auditor . Leo permit renewal of a former board tive director being referred to. Congress. a ·LaMotte; in a report rel~ased chairman "who earlier· had ap in the r-eport .were J.M .. Benjamin T. Manglona Mangl,ona said the results of ~ yesterday, said certain. CPA proved a sublease agreement for a Guerrero and Roman Tudela, the recent constitutional plebi- · , officials vlolated Common- GP A airport property that had been respectively. By Zaldy Dandan scite showed that the rnajority of 1, wealth laws and the CPA Pro previously awarded to that former . In still another case, "a con , Variety News Staff .· the people are in favor c;>f having ~ .curement. ·Regulations when· board member's brother." cession lease agreement to op iFORMER lieutenant governor ' a delegate in Congress. ! they entered into' ''.unethical In· another instance, the audit erate a currency exchange ~Benjamin T. Manglona said Con- ButcomparingtheCNMiwith 1 transactions" with their rela said an agricultural pennit was business was awarded to a i: gress should "heed" the will of Guam, which already has a del- ) tives including fathee, wife, granted to the brother-in-law of a company co-owned by the fa l! the CNMI people and pass tpe egate, is misleading, he said. ;J brother, and cousins. former CPA.executive director. ther.of the former boa.rd chair ; bill that would allow the CNMI "Guam has no Covenant, but; The questionable transac "CPA officials told us, how man." we have." ) i to have a non-voting delegate to tions involve at least 11 of 20 ever, that the former executive Continued on page 54 ':Congress. Continued on· page 54 ;; Tenorio may void road contract of World Corpo By Zaldy Dandan The CNMI will repay the two Variety News Staff companies with grants from FHA. GOV. FROILAN C. Tenorio yes Since the project involves federal terday said he will void World funds, FHA' s approval of the con Corporation's road improvement tract was needed. project contract if the Federal The project, which . broke l;Iighway Administration (FHA) ground some time ago, has yet to continue to withhold approval. begin constI:uction. Tenorio said he will give the Department of Publi_c Work~ un~ til 5 p.m. of Tuesday, Aug. 6, to Weather· secure FHA's approval.· "If they still don't give us a 'go Outlook signal' then I want the contract voided," he said. 'Tm tired of waiting." World Corp., .together with another South Korean company Dong Bu, signed an agreement with the CNMI government last Friends and relatives-of the late Juan DLG. Cabrera hug his children, Lucy and Frank during church services year to finance the improvement Partly to mostly cloudy. held yesterday at the Mt. Carmel Cathedral. The former public servant and Covenant signatory was laid to of Chalan Pale Arnold and Cross with scattered showers rest yesterday after a morning state funeral ceremony held at the Mufti-purpose Center in Susupe. Island roaas. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 2-MARIAN AS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- AUGUST 2, 1996 Tokyo: Kinney legal team in chaos? Outbreak a disease By de la Torre Ferdie In her desire to have Lujan con tions from Kinney regarding the By YURI KAGEY AMA will be required to report ca,es of Maruyama said. Variety News Staff tinue without interference in his litigation. TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese gov 0157 poisoning and to instruct pa At a separate meeting, the U.S. offi NAOKO Imeong, the maternal role as lead counsel, Imeong dis Imeong said in order to protect ernment h:1, decided to declare the tient, and their families how to disin cials also told the He.11th Mi.nisuy how grandmother of Larry Hillblom' s charged the Clinic as her attorneys. the interests of the boy and put an fect their homes. he said. food poisoning (JUtbreak that ha, sick the United States ha, dealt with similar alleged son, Junior Larry However, Kinney has refused to end to the currently chaotic situa ened nearly 9,Ql:lpeople an infectious Theministryofficialack.nowledgcd outbreaks, said Akio Yoda, another Hillbroom, says Kaelani Kinney's tion, the court should designate disease, a health official said Wednes that the designation may not curb the ministry official. discharge the Clinic. legal machinery in the heirship dav. spread of the infection, which causes Japan' soutb=khaskilled 7 people. Imeong said an immediate and her as lead guardian. · De,ignatin!!: the outbreak of the stomach pains and blooo y diarrl1ea More than 6,000 of the 8,974 people claim against Hillblom's $450- serious problem has developed as a Being responsible for the rais deadly E.coli 0157 bacteria an infe<.: and can lead to kidney failure. But ii sickened by 0157 are in the city of million estate is currently in a ~suit of there being two co-guard ing of Hillbroom since birth, tioLL, disease like cholera Of dysentery may help health officials better Sakai.about 480kilometers(300miles) chaotic situation. ians. Imeong said she is in the best wiU permit local government, to LL,e monitor the spread and be effec west of Tokyo, although the disease In a memorandum brief in sup She said it is in the uature of position to keep the boy advised central government money to test tive in informing the public.• has spread throughout Japan. port of her motion to designate as litigation that there must be one as to the developments in the liti U.S. officials from the Centers people who handle food for the bacte Theinfectionisspread through fooo lead guardian for Hillbroom, person who has ultimate decision gation, and to understand his needs ria. said a Health Ministry official, for Disease Control and Prevention can but be passed on through water and Imeong claimed that Kinney's making authority regarding pro and desires. whospokeonconditionofanonymity. and the National Institute ofHealth, in human cbntacL !eadcounsel,DavidLujan,isnow ceeding strategy. lmeong asked the court to seal Tokyo this week for meetings with But the designation, expected in the Health officials believe tainted in the bizarre and intolerable situ lmeong said she wants to re theproceedingsregardinghermo next few days, will not inc\udequanm Japanese health officials, have offered school lunches set off the Sakai out ation about developments in the .. solve the problem in the least con tion citing that the appointment of .tining the patients, a key preventive to dispatch medical experts to Japan, break mid-July but have been unable . Kaelani Kinney David Lujan a guardian is a matter personal to measure for most such cases. Doctors Health Ministry official Hiroshi to pinpoint the specific foods. litigation. frontational manner that best pre Imeong said the chaotic situa through counsel Bill R.