A former construction contractor for Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC filed yesterday a defamation lawsuit in federal court against IPI for issuing statements published in two newspapers that allegedly contained libelous statements. <\/p>\n
USA Fanter Corp. Ltd., through counsel Samuel I. Mok, asked the U.S. District Court for the NMI to hold IPI liable to pay an unspecified amount of damages.<\/p>\n
USA Fanter also asked the court to require IPI to make a public retraction of the allegedly defamatory statements at issue.<\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune tried to obtain comments from IPI but the company had yet to reply as of press time yesterday.<\/p>\n
USA Fanter said that IPI owes the company $2.08 million for construction work related to the VIP wing and exterior work of the hotel-casino that is currently being built in Garapan.<\/p>\n
Mok said IPI transmitted its libelous statements to Saipan Tribune and Marianas Variety on Dec. 19, 2019 and Dec. 20, 2019, respectively.<\/p>\n
Mok said IPI stated that USA Fanter purportedly lied about the actual construction work performed, issued false reports, forged project quantity numbers, forged a payment, fabricated units of material used, fabricated prices, and double-billed for work performed.<\/p>\n
Mok said IPI\u2019s statements were false and defamatory and that USA Fanter\u2019s business reputation was adversely affected as a result.<\/p>\n
The lawyer said USA Fanter demanded a retraction of the defamatory statements at issue which IPI has thus far declined to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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