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Rudin restitution to American Samoa totals $3.1 million

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Federal court documents on the judgment against Native Hawaiian Holding Corporation (NHHC) official, Quin Ngoc Rudin, calls for the defendant to pay restitution of just over $3 million to the American Samoa Government.

As reported by Samoa News earier this week, U.S District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar last Friday sentenced Rudin to serve more than 80 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay nearly $40 million in restitution. What is unclear is how he will be able to pay the restitution, although several properties and bank accounts linked to the defendant’s scheme have been forfeited by order of the court.

Rudin’s case before Tigar, stems from a federal indictment in 2013 in which the federal government accused him of defrauding Cisco Systems Inc. and its subsidiary Cisco Systems Capital Corporation and Altura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. — through his own company called CGC Digital.

ASG awarded NHHC a multi-million dollar contract funded by the federal National Emergency Grant (NEG) program following the 2009 earthquake and tsunami to provide among other things job training and a call center. It was Rudin who signed the contract on behalf of NHHC.

A 7-page judgment document in the Rudin case released on Tuesday this week, not only provides details of the defendant’s sentencing but also total restitution at $39.94 million, which includes $3.13 million (or $3,131,974) to be paid to the “American Samoa Government, Office of the Attorney General, Attn: National Emergency Grant.”