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HONOLULU (AP) — Three former Honolulu officials were arrested Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to hide the source of public funds used to get a police chief to retire amid a corruption investigation that ultimately put him and his former prosecutor wife in federal prison.
Roy Amemiya, the city’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second bus driver accused of using altered information to obtain a commercial permit to operate a bus was arrested by police last week.
The driver, Makalio Alesana made his initial appearance in District Court last week.
Alesana is charged with one count of fraud and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A bus driver accused of using false information to apply for a commercial permit renewal was arrested by police and later charged by the government.
Filipo Silipa made his initial appearance in District Court last week.
He is charged with one count of criminal fraud and...
Seattle, WASHINGTON — The federal court in Seattle, Washington, has given an American Samoa woman sentenced last week to serve 27 months in prison, order to self surrender at a federal jail designated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Forty-year old Iliganoa Theresa Lauofo’s lengthy jail term...
Seattle WASHINGTON — US District Court Judge Richard A. Jones at the federal court in Seattle yesterday sentenced 40-year old Iliganoa Theresa Lauofo to 27 months in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement of mail by a postal employee, according to federal prosecutors and...
Seattle, WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors say an American Samoa woman who has pled guilty to fraud and theft made a “decision to steal, month after month and year after year, resulting in dozens of discrete acts of theft,” according the US Justice Department sentencing statement filed with the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government case against three members of a family in Futiga accused of using the ASPA (American Samoa Power Authority) service to get power illegally was dismissed with prejudice, after Judge Elvis P. Patea granted the government’s request for a dismissal.
It was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti Sunia has dismissed with prejudice the government’s case against an ASG employee who was accused of engaging in a scheme that defrauded the Workmen’s Compensation Board of a little over $100,000.
(A court case that is dismissed with prejudice means...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 39-year old Samoan woman, residing in Tacoma, Washington, who allegedly used identities of children living in American Samoa and Samoa to obtain federal benefits, has pled guilty to three felony charges in connection with a seven-year benefit fraud scheme.
Iliganoa...
Seattle WASHINGTON — A Samoan woman who is alleged to have used identities of children actually living in American Samoa and Samoa to obtain federal benefits, was charged last week at the federal court in Seattle, Washington under a 17-count indictment.
Thirty-nine year old Iliganoa Theresa Lauofo...