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Former bank CEO wants transfer to Calif. upon release from prison
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Posted on Aug 03 2011
Former Bank of Saipan chief executive officer and board chair Tomas Aldan, who is serving a 10-year prison term over the bank fiasco, is asking to be transferred to the Central District of California upon his release from imprisonment, but was denied.
With this request, U.S. Probation Officer Gregory F. Arriola yesterday asked the U.S. District Court for the NMI to modify the conditions of Aldan’s supervision.
In January 2004, the federal court sentenced Aldan to 10 years for his role in a scheme to defraud the Bank of Saipan of about $6.6 million from 2001 to 2002. Upon completing his prison term, Aldan will be placed on three years of supervised release.
In his report to the federal court, Arriola stated that on July 22, 2011, a Taft Correctional case manager contacted the Probation Office via email about Aldan.
Arriola said the email contained a letter from the Taft Correctional Institution warden to chief U.S. Probation Officer Michelle A. Carey of the Central District of California to inform them of Aldan’s request to be transferred to the Central District upon his release.
Arriola said a response from U.S. Probation Officer Jodei Knez indicated that Aldan’s request was not approved because the conditions in the current judgment and commitment order issued by the federal court were not enough to supervise Aldan.
Knez noted that the conditions needed to be ordered by the federal court before their district would accept Aldan’s transfer.
Arriola said that Aldan agreed to the modifications and signed a Probation Form 49 or waiver of hearing to modify conditions of supervised release with additional conditions.
