{"id":18543,"date":"2011-09-20T06:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2011-09-20T06:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:34:49","slug":"jury-trial-of-reksid-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jury-trial-of-reksid-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury trial of Reksid begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The jury trial of Franz B. Reksid, the former Department of Public Lands special assistant to the secretary, began yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the NMI.<\/p>\n<p>When Saipan Tribune left the courtroom at 1:30pm, visiting judge Michael A. Ponsor was still selecting jurors. Saipan Tribune later learned that Ponsor was able to complete the jury selection.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old Reksid is on trial for one count of bribery concerning a program receiving federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ponsor granted defense attorney Mark Hanson&#8217;s motion to dismiss counts 2 to 6 of wire fraud charges. Ponsor, however, ruled that the jury trial will proceed as to count 1 (bribery concerning a program receiving federal funds), and counts 7 and 8 (wire fraud).<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O&#8217;Malley then asked the court last week to dismiss without prejudice counts 7 and 8. This motion was granted.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleged that from January 2009 to August 2009, Reksid borrowed over $300,000 from friends, associates, and relatives and wired part of the money to Ivory Coast and Nigeria. He also allegedly solicited $3,000 from the owner of a business that was seeking to obtain a contract with DPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter The jury trial of Franz B. Reksid, the former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}